Repulsion
Dir: Roman Polanski
UK, 1965, 105minmins, DCP
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser
Catherine Deneuve’s glassy stare of anxiety dominates this deeply disturbing and chilling tale of psychosis. She is Carol, a fragile, frigid beauty who cracks up in her London flat when left alone by her sister. Her complex feelings toward sex develop into a neurotic fascination and an erotic horror of assault haunted by specters real and imagined. Ticking clock, rotting rabbit, cracking walls… Polanski’s triumph is to turn the weird, tense depolarization of space into an emotional minefield as fear and desire become synonymous. One of cinema’s most frightening studies of woman’s fractured psyche ever filmed.
1965 Berlin International Film Festival, Special Prize of the Jury and FIPRESCI Prize
Co-presenter of “Marvelous Four: 100 Years of Polish Independence”
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
Tickets available at screening venue on screening date 2018-11-11 (Sun)
17:30Tickets available at screening venue on screening date 2018-11-25 (Sun)
14:30
Festival Grand Cinema
The Grand Cinema
Remarks
- On-the-day Ticket Purchase Arrangement : Tickets are available at URBTIX outlets until one hour before the screening, after which tickets are available at URBTIX website and mobile app. On-the-day tickets will also be available at the Self-service Ticketing Kiosk of the respective venue, subject to availability.
- Unless otherwise stated, all films (except English-speaking films) are subtitled in English.
- While it is the HKIFFS’s policy to secure the best possible print of the original version for all its screenings, the HKIFFS appreciates its patrons’ understanding on occasions when less than perfect screening copies are screened.
