Cul de Sac (1966)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 111m
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Lionel Stander, Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, William Franklin
Synopsis:
Criminals on the run lick their wounds at the home of a retired businessman and his flighty young wife on Holy Island, Northumbria. As the survivor's superiors abandon him to his fate his role changes from potential executioner to victim.
Review:
For his third feature Polanski returns to the couple versus interloper structure of Knife in the Water. He casts the sister of the star of Repulsion as the distaff half of an apparently ill-matched pair who nevertheless share a curious tormentor/tormented relationship of their own. The materialism of the era, also a feature of Antonioni's films, is revealed as no match for chaotic forces and when the husband is forced by his wife to confront his violent side he retreats into despair. Absorbing enough, though Stander's voice may grate!
Country: GB
Technical: bw 111m
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Lionel Stander, Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, William Franklin
Synopsis:
Criminals on the run lick their wounds at the home of a retired businessman and his flighty young wife on Holy Island, Northumbria. As the survivor's superiors abandon him to his fate his role changes from potential executioner to victim.
Review:
For his third feature Polanski returns to the couple versus interloper structure of Knife in the Water. He casts the sister of the star of Repulsion as the distaff half of an apparently ill-matched pair who nevertheless share a curious tormentor/tormented relationship of their own. The materialism of the era, also a feature of Antonioni's films, is revealed as no match for chaotic forces and when the husband is forced by his wife to confront his violent side he retreats into despair. Absorbing enough, though Stander's voice may grate!
Country: GB
Technical: bw 111m
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Lionel Stander, Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, William Franklin
Synopsis:
Criminals on the run lick their wounds at the home of a retired businessman and his flighty young wife on Holy Island, Northumbria. As the survivor's superiors abandon him to his fate his role changes from potential executioner to victim.
Review:
For his third feature Polanski returns to the couple versus interloper structure of Knife in the Water. He casts the sister of the star of Repulsion as the distaff half of an apparently ill-matched pair who nevertheless share a curious tormentor/tormented relationship of their own. The materialism of the era, also a feature of Antonioni's films, is revealed as no match for chaotic forces and when the husband is forced by his wife to confront his violent side he retreats into despair. Absorbing enough, though Stander's voice may grate!