You can see why that tagline is the worst, right? I don't have to explain it? Cool.Carol (Catherine Deneuve) is a shy young woman living with her sister, Helen (Yvonne Furneaux), in London. Where Helen finds it easy to go out and date, Carol actively avoids engaging with other people, especially men. She becomes more and more withdrawn after Helen goes on vacation, isolating herself in the apartment, wracked with nightmares about the walls cracking and intruders, leading to murderous results.
This is one of those "classic" films that I would actually like to see updated and remade. There is a great story to be told of a woman stifled by the toxic men around her, wrapped into her fears so tightly it chokes her, but without the gross fetishization of rape fantasy. Give me Repulsion without Polanski, is what I'm saying.
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