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Roman Polanski Collection [Region 2] | ![Roman Polanski Collection [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sZBo-U%2BPL._SL160_.jpg) | Category: DVD
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Languages: English (Original Language), Polish (Original Language)
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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.7 x 1.2
EAN: 5060020621826
ASIN: B0000AISI3
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Album Description
UK only, DVD (PAL / Region 2) box set. Description, A 4-disc set containing the following three films, Knife In The Water (1962), Repulsion (1965) and Cul-De-Sac (1966). Also included on a bonus disc are a selection of Polanksi's award-winning short films, Two Men And A Wardrobe (1958), A Murderer (1957), Teethful Smile (1957), Breaking Up The Dance (1957), When Angels Fall (1959), Mammals (1962), and The Fat And The Lean (1961). Special Features for Knife In The Water, A Ticket to the West featurette, Theatrical trailer, Talent bios and Poster and stills gallery. Special Features for Repulsion, Audio commentary with Roman Polanski and Catherine Deneuve, A British Horror Film featurette, Theatrical trailer, Original script extracts, Original drawings by art director Seamus Flannery, Eye and Brain (audio) by Professor Richard Gregory, Talent bios and Poster and stills gallery. Special Features for Cul-De-Sac, Two Gangsters and an Island featurette, Theatrical trailer, Talent bios and Poster and stills gallery. DVD Technical Information, Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen /4:3, Language: English Audio: DTS, Dolby Digital 5.1.
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The Early Years November 11, 2009
James Ferguson (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Too bad this collection has been discontinued because it represents some of Polanski's best work. In addition to his three seminal films, there are a number of short films in this box set that give you an intimate view of Polanski's formative development. The movies themselves are strikingly different from the taut action piece, Knife in the Water, to the tense psychological thriller Repulsion, to the free-wheeling Cul-de-Sac. All have since been repackaged by Criterion, which is why I assume this set is no longer available.
Knife in the Water (1962) stands out because it is filmed in Poland and plays on very personal themes. It seems that the voice of the young boy wasn't strong enough for Polanski so he fills the character with his own voice. Telling in other ways, as Polanski seems to be directing his subversive energies against those of the more established voices of the time, as personified in Andrzej. Krystyna is no innocent bystander. While passive, she very much is a part of the action, and ultimately you feel as though the story is being told through her eyes, as she holds the fate of hte young boy close to her heart.
Repulsion (1965) has often been compared to Psycho, but the movies are very far apart. I think Polanski was less concerned by the depths of depravity that his central character Carol (Catherine Deneuve) descends to than he was the sense of isolation of being a stranger in a strange land, in this case London. There appear to be allusions to Cocteau in the way the apartment comes alive in Carol's mind after her sister has left with a boyfriend on a trip to Rome. Unable to cope with the reality of her situation, she slips into a terrifying world where everyone appears to be the enemy. One almost senses the film as a nightmarish version of Beauty and the Beast.
Cul-de-Sac (1966) seems more derived from British theatre at the time, in particular Beckett and Pinter. Not surprising the working title for this movie was "Waiting for Katzenbach." The film is ostensibly about an eccentric artist living in a remote English castle with his young French wife, played by Catherine Deneuve's sister Françoise Dorléac. Donald Pleasence gives a standout performance worthy of his stage experience as the artist as he struggles against a two-bit thug, Lionel Stander, who has taken over his castle as he waits for his boss to give him directions after a failed heist. The movie is more about the characters relationships to each other than it is about any overriding story, and is played largely for laughs.
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