Monday, July 09, 2007
BONKERS
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Roman Polansky's
Catherine Deneuve plays a sexually repressed woman whose world becomes more haunted when she is left alone for a couple of weeks while her sister has a vacation.
It doesn't sound like much but Polansky inches the film up the fear meter very nicely while Deneuve gets battier all the time.
It is very good.
There are a lot of layers to it and finally we discover where all the neurotica started.
Nice closure.
We get to see into the mind of the afflicted as well as watch her actions.
The cinematography and use of sound is very skillful.
There were a lot of images that reminded me of the other Polansky film that we saw; Knife in the Water.
Rosemary's Baby is coming up soon on the Best list.
It will be fun to see how today's film fits into that work.
I will give it a 4 out of Netflix5.
Labels: best films
