Is not dead or anything, I've just watched Cul-De-Sac - which I'd only heard mentioned in passing for Komeda's soundtrack before - for the first time, and I'm gobsmacked at how good it is.
I can't think of any other black comedies that have cinematography you could pause at any moment to make a perfect still. It's a real one-off. There's a great documentary on the DVD I watched (hired from Lovefilm - looks like you can only buy it for crazy money now) too, and the biogs are well worth reading. Francois Dorleac, the Catherine Deneuve-lookalike woman who plays the impulsive trophy wife, looks exactly like Deneuve because she's her sister. You've not heard of her (unless you're linus, I bet) because she died in a car crash before the film was released.
I watched Repulsion recently and didn't think it was that good (would have been great at the time, I'm sure, and I respect its originality, but it's kind of slow and clunky). But Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby are incredible too.
So anyway, Polanski. We've never had a thread about him. What an astonishing talent. What should I watch next?
I can't think of any other black comedies that have cinematography you could pause at any moment to make a perfect still. It's a real one-off. There's a great documentary on the DVD I watched (hired from Lovefilm - looks like you can only buy it for crazy money now) too, and the biogs are well worth reading. Francois Dorleac, the Catherine Deneuve-lookalike woman who plays the impulsive trophy wife, looks exactly like Deneuve because she's her sister. You've not heard of her (unless you're linus, I bet) because she died in a car crash before the film was released.
I watched Repulsion recently and didn't think it was that good (would have been great at the time, I'm sure, and I respect its originality, but it's kind of slow and clunky). But Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby are incredible too.
So anyway, Polanski. We've never had a thread about him. What an astonishing talent. What should I watch next?
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