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...others: The Making of a King, by Alan Lloyd, Invasion: 1066 by Rupert Furneaux, The Conquest of England by Eric Linklater...
...them seem quite different every time they appear. None is developed fully enough so that the facets of his personality cohere; and since Polanski, a Pole, is directing in a language foreign to him, the English dialogue doesn't add much. (Catherine Deneuve, who plays the girl, and Yvette Furneaux, who plays her sister, are speaking in a foreign language too.) Repulsion is undeniably interesting, and should give most people frisson or two. But like the opening credits, which glide up and down Miss Deneuve's glistening eyeball, the movie as whole is silly and uninspired...
...terrors of a de luxe beauty salon where she helps refinish the surfaces of wealthy, parchment-faced matrons. In the street outside lies a world of hot-mouthed males whose attentions send her into panicky flight. Every night in bed she waits, staring, petrified, until her uninhibited sister (Yvonne Furneaux) and a married lover come home to curdle a young girl's blood with their noisy nocturnal diversions...
...into Lisbon to find help in rescuing her industrialist husband from behind the Iron Curtain. But instead of getting on with the story, everyone stands around and talks. Ray tells Maureen how his divorced wife deceived him; Maureen tells Ray why she married a rich old man, and Yvonne Furneaux explains why she joined Claude's harem ("I have known destitution"), and laments that she isn't as pure as on her confirmation...
Died. Philip Furneaux Jordan, 48, press adviser to Britain's Prime Minister Attlee, longtime journalist who built a solid reputation as a correspondent during the Spanish Civil War, on which he based his bestselling novel, There Is No Return; of a heart attack; in London...