Filmed in '76, the conclusion to Roman Polanski's evil-rooms trilogy returns to the urban paranoia and fracturing psyches of Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. Polanski?who'd just taken up residence in France?himself plays the vulnerable, mouse-like new occupant of a forlorn Paris apartment, whose creep...
Filmed in ’76, the conclusion to Roman Polanski’s evil-rooms trilogy returns to the urban paranoia and fracturing psyches of Repulsion and Rosemary’s Baby. Polanski?who’d just taken up residence in France?himself plays the vulnerable, mouse-like new occupant of a forlorn Paris apartment, whose creeping schizophrenia grows as he feels himself falling under the influence of the previous resident, a female suicide victim. A perverse slow-dazzle.
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