Sixties and seventies Polanski is always worth a look, and this unsettling piece of internalized Grand Guignol is certainly one of his best works.
Deneuve's doll-like beauty is just as effectively used as in "Belle de jour", but Polanski doesn't go for Bunuel's bitingly satirical, but for a thoroughly menacing kind of surrealism. The few outbursts of violence are real heart-stoppers and the whole atmosphere is built up masterfully.
In the end, though, Polanski's manipulative puppeteering emerges as slightly too self-sufficient to allow this to be an utterly embraceable masterpiece.
8 out of 10 razor-sharp encounters
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