I think one of the reasons I've watched this film far more than any of Polanski's other films is partially due to the presence of the unmatched screen presence of Catherine Deneuve ("Belle De Jour", "Tristana"). Just like Polanski with his direction, Deneuve tends to give everything she has in her performances, and I, for one, have fallen in love with her onscreen characters more than once. Catherine had her breakout role a year earlier in Jaques Demy's delightful "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg", but I believe this was Deneuve's first starring role in English. This role is also much different than many of the roles I've seen her in. This role she abandons her dreamy sly persona for a distracted, paranoid persona. Polanski's direction is on fine point here. Even though I think "Rosemary's Baby" is a superior film I've probably watched "Repulsion" a few more times. All three of the films in the Apartment Trilogy are worth watching, and even though this was Polanski's second film, to this day it stands as one of his best entries.
Review of Repulsion
