Quote of the Day

On Polanski's Repulsion (via):

"What makes “Repulsion” so important — it’s the “Birth of a Nation” of spooky-girl movies — is its unexpected empathy with its protagonist’s insanity, Mr. Polanski’s willingness to share her most irrational terrors, her deadliest delusions. Carole (Catherine Deneuve), a pretty Belgian living in a London flat with her older sister, has the remote, affectless manner of a somnambulist, and her halting French accent makes her seem more alien still, yet Mr. Polanski’s direction is so inventively sensual, so attentive to the most intimate details of her mean surroundings, that the viewer begins to feel, against all reason, close to her. The further she gets from reality, the better we seem to know her. She’s crouched in a corner of her mind, but we see her, and understand, somehow, why she’s hiding there."

This article's almost a week old so perhaps y'all have already read it, but I'd missed it til now and found it enjoyable - spinning off from this upcoming weekend's new release horror flick The Uninvited - which I had no idea it was a remake of 2003's Korean flick A Tale of Two Sisters, a film I've been meaning to watch forever now - it takes a look at "Spooky Girl" movies through the years and bounces from me-faves Repulsion to Audition to Carrie... I'd never given much thought to how many of the horror films I enjoy have to do with feeling bad for ostracized weirdo girls. May comes to mind, too. Huh.
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