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- 2006
- TV-14
- Royal Films International
- 1 h 45 m
- 2006
- TV-14
- Royal Films International
- 1 h 45 m
Summary Roman Polanski followed up his international breakthrough Knife in the Water with this controversial tale of psychosis. Catherine Deneuve is Carol, a fragile, frigid young beauty cracking up in her London flat when left alone by her vacationing sister. She is soon haunted by specters real and imagined, and her insanity grows to a violent...
Directed By: Roman Polanski
Written By: Roman Polanski, Gérard Brach, David Stone
- 2006
- TV-14
- Royal Films International
- 1 h 45 m
- 2006
- TV-14
- Royal Films International
- 1 h 45 m
Repulsion (re-release)
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Summary Roman Polanski followed up his international breakthrough Knife in the Water with this controversial tale of psychosis. Catherine Deneuve is Carol, a fragile, frigid young beauty cracking up in her London flat when left alone by her vacationing sister. She is soon haunted by specters real and imagined, and her insanity grows to a violent...
Directed By: Roman Polanski
Written By: Roman Polanski, Gérard Brach, David Stone
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 8 Critic Reviews
91
100% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
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If hell is in the details, Roman Polanski has captured it here in his disturbing portrait of falling into psychosis.
An absolute knockout of a movie in the psychological horror line has been accomplished by Roman Polanski in his first English-language film. (Review of Original Release)
By Bosley Crowther FULL REVIEW
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 110 User Ratings
7.7
76% Positive
84 Ratings
84 Ratings
14% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
10% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 110 User Ratings
7.7
76% Positive
84 Ratings
84 Ratings
14% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
10% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
Aug 22, 2025
"Repulsion" is a frightening, fiercely entertaining experience that holds up to time. A truly horrific psychological drama in which Polish director Roman Polanski draws out a remarkable performance from young French thesp, Catherine Deneuve has captured it here in his disturbing portrait of a woman falling into psychosis.
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Apr 8, 2020
Repulsion (1965) Sinopsis: Una escalofriante historia acerca del deterioro mental de una mujer sexualmente reprimida. Opinión: Muy buen thriller psicológico, claustrofobico y eventualmente retorcido. Catherine Deneuve realiza una actuación creíble y plausible aunque quizás un poco sofocante ya que no le salen palabras en casi toda la película, incluso dan ganas de sacudirla. El plano final da lugar a doble interpretación sobre lo que podría explicar el comportamiento de la chica ya que no es del todo explícito. Una obra de culto sin lugar a dudas. Valoración: 5 de 5
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Repulsion is a classy, truly horrific psychological drama in which Polish director Roman Polanski draws out a remarkable performance from young French thesp, Catherine Deneuve. (Review of Original Release)
By Staff (Not credited) FULL REVIEW
The cruelty of his methods aside -- and Polanski wasn't the first director to terrorize an actor for the sake of a performance -- Repulsion is a frightening, fiercely entertaining experience that holds up to time. (Review of May 1998 revival)
Repulsion's depiction of a young woman's dissolution into madness is one of the most harrowing mental descents ever depicted onscreen. (Reviewed 11/24/97)
Roman Polanski's first film in English (1965, 105 min.) is still his scariest and most disturbing--not only for its evocations of sexual panic, but also because his masterful employment of sound puts the audience's imagination to work in numerous ways...As narrative this works only part of the time, and as case study it may occasionally seem too pat, but as subjective nightmare it's a stunning piece of filmmaking.
The movie's shake-and-bake mix of "reality" and crumbling subjectivity is too deliberate to be about character--it is, rather, a game of movieness, a masquerade of Grand Guignol–as-psyche, virtually a parody of the surrealist's notion of consciousness bagged and tagged on celluloid.
Jun 12, 2019
So dark and haunting. Truly a Polanski masterpiece. Rosemary's Baby is my favorite movie of Polanski.
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Aug 3, 2023
Refer to childhood The first part of Roman Polanski's apartment trilogy. The film is a successful and well-made film for the time it was made in 1965. It makes the actor a star. Although in some scenes his acting is obviously artificial and formal, but the film works well due to the good decoupage in closed space. The psychological issue of people has always been observed in Polanski's works. Timely dialogues, appropriate music and the use of silence in some scenes are other strong points of the film.
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Oct 4, 2023
Polanski. Immediate, awful taste in my mouth. Reminds me of everything bad and awful. Charles Manson. ****. Paedophilia. And yes, he is a paedophile. This is undeniable.Watching a work of art created by a criminal of a moral ranging from low to entirely unacceptable is always difficult and has to be done with a lot of caution, where it aligns with your morals and ethics. But on the other hand, so many artists of every kind have been outed having done reprehensible things, it becomes almost impossible to enjoy any creation if you do not wear the glasses of future past. We are trapped in the world of immorality, "wearing rose coloured glasses so that all the red flags look like flags."Cancel culture does not exist, and there isn't a single person in the world who doesn't get new chances. Polanski, just like many other paedophile rapists, continues to receive honors and job offers from above, despite the very many vocal protests from the **** incredible irony is that the film "Repulsion" is about a woman terrorized by men, some of whom have her in some sort of power (like the landlord.) And perhaps even more ironic are the reviews written by men, speaking of the "decent admirer whose honest love might be exactly what she needs." It brings into the question whether everything we are seeing are her hallucinations, but being a woman myself, I really cannot help but experience everything in this movie as reality in some way or another, including the doubt that it brings into whether or not this is real - as this is something that us women are awfully familiar with on a mass scale.Scrubbing all of that off of our brains, there is no denying that this film is highly influential. So many modern horror classics like "It Follows", "The Babadook" and "Hereditary" cite as having this film being one of the influences, where some influences are a lot more on the nose than others (rabbits and pigeons and wall hands, oh my.)
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May 15, 2013
The story is not bad, but the film is so boring and takes a long time until finally something happens. When something finally happens this is the "highlight" of the film. Even old movies should be entertaining. In my opinion this film is not.
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Production Company
- Compton Films
- Tekli British Productions
Release Date Apr 21, 2006
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating TV-14
Tagline "A classic chiller of the 'Psycho' school!"
Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
• 2 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 1 Nomination
