Roman Polanski’s first English-language film remains an effective look at a young woman’s descent into madness. Carol LeDoux is an attractive young lady with some deep-seated psychological issues related to men. When left to her own devices, Carol becomes isolated and sinks deeper and deeper into her paranoia until it suffocates her. Her walls begin to crumble in her imagination, leading to multiple hallucinations of a shadowy rapist breaking into her bedroom. Fantasy and reality bleeds together, in which nothing good can come of invading Carol’s space. Repulsion is not a film that you watch casually with your drunken friends; it demands your undivided attention so you can become fully wrapped up in Carol’s mental decay and feeling her claustrophobia. Onetime Chanel No. 5 model Catherine Deneuve owns this film as the doomed Carol LeDoux, making us go through the ordeal with her and understand why she has bludgeoned a would-be suitor to death with a candleholder. Most importantly, she understands something that most loudmouths often forget: that silence can often be the most frightening sound imaginable.
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