I was so impressed with Yvonne Furneaux in Michelangelo Antonioni's Le amiche / The Girlfriends (1955) that checking her out in Roman Polanski's first English language film, Repulsion (1965), seemed natural. In this London-based tale of one person's descent into madness, Furneaux plays Hélène, the healthier older sister of Carole (Catherine Deneuve). It's an excellent, stylish and sometimes creepy black and white film made on a modest budget.
Here, Hélène (Yvonne Furneaux) tries to assure Carole (Catherine Deneuve) that she'll be all right during the former's trip with her married paramour to Pisa.
But Carole is strange, her reality even stranger . . . and someone left a straight razor in the bathroom . . .
Today's Rune: Gateway.
3 comments:
REPULSION is one of the great ones.
My favorite of his movies.
Erik, Roman is a creeper, but this one looks like a really good one.
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