Genre:
Thriller
Release Date: 02/08/2005
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 105 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: Program Power Ent
The first English-language film of director
Roman Polanski is a psychological thriller in the vein of
Alfred Hitchcock's
Psycho (1960) and his own later film
Rosemary's Baby (1968).
Catherine Deneuve stars as Carol Ledoux, a Belgian manicurist living with her sister, Helen (
Yvonne Furneaux), in a London flat. Simultaneously attracted and repulsed by sex, Carol is a virgin who finds her sister's relationship with a married man, Michael (
Ian Hendry), extremely disturbing. When her sister and Michael go on holiday, Carol begins to disintegrate mentally, hallucinating bizarre encounters, being forced into taking a sabbatical from her job and ultimately committing a pair of murders in her deranged state.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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