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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Cast:
Catherine Deneuve - Carol Ledoux
Ian Hendry - Michael
John Fraser - Colin
Patrick Wymark - Landlord
Yvonne Furneaux - Helen Ledoux
Renee Houston - Miss Balch
Helen Fraser - Bridget
Valerie Taylor - Mme. Denise
James Villiers - John
Hugh Futcher - Reggie
Monica Merlin - Mrs. Rendlesham
Imogen Graham - Manicurist

Production:
Roman Polanski - Director
Gene Gutowski - Producer
Chico Hamilton - Composer
Alastair McIntyre - Editor
Gérard Brach Roman Polanski David Stone - Screen Writer
Seamus Flannery - Art Director
Sam Waynberg - Associate Producer
Gilbert Taylor - Cinematographer
Chico Hamilton - Musical Direction/Supervision
Tom Smith - Makeup

Rosemary's Baby
    Mia Farrow / R / 1968
The Witch Who Came From the Sea
    Millie Perkins / R / 1976
Possession
    Isabelle Adjani / R / 1981
Images
    Susannah York / R / 1972
Sisters [Criterion Collection]
    Margot Kidder / R / 1973
The Brood
    Oliver Reed / R / 1979
In My Skin
    Marina de Van / NR / 2002
Dementia/Daughter of Horror
    Adrienne Barrett / NR / 1955

1965 Berlin International Film Festival