
Roman Polanski (Repulsion) orchestrates a mental ménage à trois in this slyly absurd tale of paranoia from the director's golden 1960s period. Donald Pleasance (Halloween) and Françoise DorlÉac (The Soft Skin) star as a withdrawn couple whose isolated house is infiltrated by a rude, burly American gangster on the run, played by Lionel Stander (Unfaithfully Yours). The three engage in a game of shifting identities and sexual and emotional humiliations. Cul-de-sac is an evocative, claustrophobic, and morbidly funny tale of the modern world in chaos.
Special Features:
- New digital restoration, approved by director Roman Polanski, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Two Gangsters and an Island, a 2003 short documentary about the making of Cul-de-sac, featuring interviews with Polanski, producer Gene Gutowski, and cinematographer Gil Taylor
- Interview with Polanski from 1967
- Theatrical trailers
- PLUS: A booklet featuring
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Brand CRITERION COLLECTION
Run Time 113 mins approx.
1966
Cast List Donald Pleasence Françoise Dorléac Lionel Stander Jack MacGowran Iain Quarrier Geoffrey Sumner
15
Director Roman Polanski
Main Language English
Number of Disks 1
2
Studio The Criterion Collection
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