Repulsion issued in blu-ray

Roman Polanski’s first English-language film in 1965, starring Catherine Deneuve and with a script by Gérard Brach, was a sensation and became a cult film.  David Kehr, of the New York Times, reviews it again as it comes out in blu-ray.
 
A year Antonioni’s Blowup, Polanski chose “Swinging London” as the scene for the schizoid love-affairs of Carole Ledoux (Catherine Deneuve).  The Polish director, who had made his name with Knife in the Water (1962), arrived in a city bursting with cultural innovation, with music everywhere.  He then met Deneuve, at the time the girlfriend of fashion photographer David Bailey.

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Catherine Deneuve in Repulsion (1965)

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Catherine Deneuve in Repulsion (1965)

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28/07/09