NR • 1 hour 45 min • 1965

Still perhaps Polanski's most perfectly realised film, a stunning portrait of the disintegration, mental and emotional, of a shy young Belgian girl (Deneuve) li

A potent cocktail of sexual repression and madness from RomanPolanski.

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. Polanski, who wrote the original screenplay with Gerard Brach, uses his technical resources and the abilities of his thesps to build up a tense atmosphere of evil.

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The film is a master-class mosaic of aural detail and visual sleights of hand.

Roman Polanski's 70s thriller and 60s horror classics are re-released while Gerard Butler stars in a rom-com low on comedy

Polanski and Deneuve's depiction of a young woman's dissolution into madness is one of the most harrowing mental descents ever depicted onscreen.