I read that in his interviews, Roman Polansky called this film his best film and, if he wanted, would shoot only films like this. This is the movie "Cul-de-sac" (1966). Two thugs, wounded after a failed robbery and even on a broken down car, stuck near the so-called tidal island of Lindisfarne. Dickie (Lyonel Stender) sees poles with
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I read that in his interviews, Roman Polansky called this film his best film and, if he wanted, would shoot only films like this. This is the movie "Cul-de-sac" (1966). Two thugs, wounded after a failed robbery and even on a broken down car, stuck near the so-called tidal island of Lindisfarne. Dickie (Lyonel Stender) sees poles with telephone wires and goes where they lead to call his boss in the hope that he will get them out of there. Alby with a wound in his abdomen remains waiting for him in the car in the tidal zone. Having reached the island, Dickie discovers a castle there, as it gradually turns out, a rather strange married couple lives in it surrounded by a huge number of chickens - not the first young English husband George (Donald Pleasance) and his French wife Teresa (Françoise Dorleac). We observe the behavior of these people, in places clearly deviant, in places simply cruel, and not even the bandit Dickie there is the most cruel, but just the beauty Teresa, bitchy, mean and lying person. For some time there appear and guests, but they are no better than the owners, there is the most vile is a little boy who behaves like a complete scumbag (probably there is someone). We see how people’s behavior changes – at first, the cowardly and indecisive George ends up getting all serious, inspired by Teresa’s false statement that Dickie molested her, he kills him, it seems that he did not expect this from himself, after which he finally goes off the rails. Teresa tries to force him to leave, but he is completely out of his mind, and Teresa leaves. I must say, despite the fact that one of the genres of the film is indicated by comedy, I did not see anything particularly comedic in the film, except that some elements of black and absurd comedy, this is more of a dramatic thriller. The film is interesting, the actors play great.
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