REVIEW: “Repulsion” (1965)

Catherine Deneuve gets weird in Roman Polanski’s “Repulsion”

TAGLINE: “The nightmare world of a virgin’s dreams becomes the screen’s shocking reality!”

I’m guessing we’ve all known someone a little like Carol, the character at the center of Repulsion (lovely French actress Catherine Deneuve).

A beautiful girl. Luminously, transcendently beautiful. Men are poleaxed, distracted, challenged; women are both envious and intrigued. But the more time you spend with her, talk to her, observe her, the more it becomes clear there is something… off. I knew a girl something like her in college. And for more than a year, I worked side by side with a woman who was drop-dead gorgeous – but not quite right. The situation grew ever more unsettling, as the depth of disturbance slowly revealed itself.