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Natalie Guevara
23Sep11
Holy island! I loved the bodies in this movie: so physical, ridiculous, tender. It's a storm out there, it's a storm in here.
Publius
16Mar11
Entertaining Polanski flick with some interesting characters. The inert pansy as portrayed by Donald Pleasence, the brutish Lionel Stander and starlet Françoise Dorleac as the bored girl who married too early. It's a black comedy with an eerie setting. I was reminded of the John Huston flick 'Key Largo' - whose tagline 'A hurricane swells outside but it's nothing compared with the storm within' is interchangeable.
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Alexander Robino
10Jan11
Sigh... as per usual, I find myself feeling like the jerk who comes around that has to have a different opinion and even question a classic. Not my motive I assure you! It's a lovely plot and has golden moments. First, this film had me bewildered, then it had me loving it, then it lost me at the end. Typical of Polanski to go out of the way of his plot in order to serve darker motives. But it was enjoyable overall.
Mark B Hillier
23Dec10
a very strange, yet enjoyable film. immediately after watching it for the first time, I rewatched it, approaching it differently from other polanski films and decided that its a great study of isolation that is made interesting by a diverse trio of characters that were very odd but effective. not his best, but still enjoyable in a surreal and silly way
Lights in the Dusk
1Oct10
Perhaps my favourite Roman Polanski film: weird, thrilling and often incredibly funny. The continuous, single-take, seven and a half minute sequence on the beach - beginning with Françoise Dorléac stripping off and running into the ocean, and ending with an airplane flying low over the camera - is a great example of how brilliant a filmmaker Polanski was during the first half of his career.
Daniel S.
11Apr10
I really love some scenes of CUL-DE-SAC: all the scenes with Jack MacGowran or Pleasence and Stander's scenes together for the most part. But the film still looks pale in comparison with KNIFE IN THE WATER and REPULSION, maybe because the screenplay is at times rather loose: for instance, the visit of the Fairweather family doesn't bring anything to the story. But, all in all, a film to keep in one's library.
Mark Ayala
4Dec09
To those who love to watch movies for free: http://www.hulu.com/cul-de-sac Word around the block is that Criterion has licensed this film from MGM, but this will suffice in the mean time.
Pierluigi Puccini
4Dec09
Lionel Stander and Donald Pleasence are marvelous, as well as the screenplay and direction, with Polanski's intense, bizarre and darker than night humour. both delightful and warped