The Stop Button
blogging by Andrew Wickliffe
Category: Directed by Roman Polanski
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At around the seventy minute mark, Repulsion finally gives Catherine Deneuve some personality. Sure, she’s gone completely insane at this point, but she sings a little lullaby to herself. And Deneuve is in at least sixty-five of those seventy minutes without any personality (she loses it again soon after). She is the subject of the…
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From the first scene of Rosemary’s Baby, Roman Polanski establishes the style he’s going to use until the big reveal at the end. He shoots a lot of over-the-shoulder shots with people moving around out of frame, causing a startling effect when the viewer finds out they’re now in a completely different location. He does…
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Seemingly endless adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES with an atrocious lead performance from Nastassja Kinski and an almost as bad one from her beau, Peter Firth. The third act, partially based on the source material, is an absolute disaster. But the screenplay’s still endless problems of its own. Absolutely gorgeous looking; cinematography…
The Stop Button 