(aka "Callejón sin salida" or "Djävulsk gisslan")

 

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UK 1966

 

A couple (Pleasance and Dorleac) retreat from the world by living on an isolated island. Their peace is shattered, however, by two gangsters on the run...

In many respects, Cul-de-Sac resembles the brilliant Death and the Maiden, Polanski's most recent film. Most of Polanski's films bear marks of his main themes - sexual perversity, humiliation, and fear (nowhere better analyzed than in Repulsion), corruption, the cracking of the thin veneer of normality which hides the seething chaos beneath, and his knife theme which appears in all his films to some extent But they seem to be realized in similar ways in Death and the Maiden and Cul-de-Sac. The same notion of claustrophobic isolation prevails in both, while the sense of tension and uneasiness is skilfully captured.

Cul-de-Sac is a dark and powerfully pessimistic work, yet one which retains a sense of surreal wit and very black humour. Perhaps not Polanski's best, but still very watchable.

Review by Matthew Bull at the Edinburgh University Film Society located HERE

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Theatrical Release: February 1966

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DVD Review: Anchor Bay (Roman Polanski Collection) - Region 2 - PAL

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Region 2 - PAL
Runtime 1:47:16 (4% PAL speedup)
Video

1.78:1 Original Aspect Ratio

16X9 enhanced
Average Bitrate: 6.45 mb/s
PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s

NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.
Bitrate

Audio English Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 5.1, English DTS 5.1
Subtitles None
Features Release Information:
Studio: Anchor Bay

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen anamorphic - 1.78:1

Edition Details:
• In boxset with Knife in the water, Repulsion and 8 Polanski short films
• Extras for Cul-de-sac:
• Two Gangsters and an Island featurette
• Theatrical trailer
• Liner notes
• Talent bios
• Poster and stills gallery

DVD Release Date: 2003-08-29
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Chapters 18

 

 

Comments

A much heralded boxset upon its release, and with good reason, Polanski followers had been waiting for a decent edition of Repulsion and any of Cul-de-sac and for almost the price of the Criterion "Knife in the Water" you get three films including that one and 8 Polanski shorts in decent, if not Criterion-level stellar, condition. With the decent extras this has proven to be Anchor Bay's best release in a number of years. Its failings are having no subtitle options but the image is progressive but has moments of sharpness. A must-own for Polanski fans and film students alike. 

 - Gary Tooze

 

 





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