Cul-de-sac (1966) ( Cul de sac ) ( Culdesac )

Cul-de-sac (1966) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Cul de sac
Alternate Title: Culdesac
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Berlin International Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1966 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Roman Polanski

Written By:
Gérard Brach
Roman Polanski

Actors:
Donald Pleasence ..... George
Françoise Dorléac ..... Teresa
Lionel Stander ..... Richard
Jack MacGowran ..... Albie
Iain Quarrier ..... Christopher
Geoffrey Sumner ..... Christopher's Father
Renee Houston ..... Christopher's Mother
Robert Dorning ..... Philip Fairweather
Marie Kean ..... Marion Fairweather
William Franklyn ..... Cecil
Jacqueline Bisset ..... Jacqueline (as Jackie Bisset)
Trevor Delaney ..... Nicholas

Synopsis:

Immediately after the boxoffice success of his macabre masterpiece Repulsion, Roman Polanski returned to a theme he had explored in his early classic Knife in the Water the destruction of a fragile relationship by a maligned outsider. The resulting film was Cul-De-Sac. Donald Pleasence and Francoise Dorleac play a mismatched couple he effeminate and petulant, she sensual and enigmatic who share a bizarre sexual relationship, living in a remote castle. Their very isolation from the world prevents their eccentric partnership from foundering.

A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at a beachfront castle. The owners of the castle, a meek Englishman and his willful French wife, are initially the unwilling hosts to the criminals. Quickly, however, the relationships between the criminal, the wife, and the Englishman begin to shift in humorous and bizarre fashion.

The wounded criminal Richard "Dicky" and his dying partner Albie seek for shelter in an old seaside castle full of chickens and owned by the eccentric and coward American George and his slut French wife Teresa. While waiting for the rescue of his boss, Albie dies and Dicky develops a strange relationship with the odd couple.

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