Word: polanski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by ROMAN POLANSKI Screenplay by ROBERT TOWNE
WHAT? is Roman Polanski's shot at a scatterbrained, spur-of-the-moment comedy, a little like John Huston's Beat the Devil. A girl (Sydne Rome) stumbles into an Italian villa barely clothed and near collapse. Like Playboy's Little Annie Fanny, whom she resembles, the girl is promptly set upon by the entire household, which includes psychotics, perverts, lechers, gnomes, dikes and an assortment of servants who make it their business not to notice anything...
...Polanski has always fancied himself something of an absurdist, although his best films-such as Knife in the Water, Repulsion and Cul de Sac-have been more notable for good, slightly kinky melodrama. What? has more of the trappings of absurdist comedy. The girl, although apparently free to leave, remains a prisoner; nothing is explained, no one acts out of any clear motivation...
...Repulsion, the finest horror-thriller ever made. Roman Polanski directed the lovely and crazed Catherine Deneuve in this gruesome tale of obsession, insanity, and brutality. Although the action will probably be cut badly for television, watch it in a dark room by yourself, and maybe you can get some of the spine chills. A brilliant film visually and dramatically, a must. Channel...
Isamu Noguchi, D.F.A., sculptor. Georgia O'Keeffe, D.F.A., artist. Roman Polanski, D.F.A., film director...