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Film:  Repulsion by Roman Polanski

Showed at the Cinefamily.  Felt like seeing this film as part of my film education.  Not a joyous, effortless pleasure, but an interesting film, particularly from a directorial standpoint.  Polanski is a trickster and a magician in many ways -- he loves clever, in camera effects and blocking exercises.  Very intelligent and inventive, especially in contrast to how filmmakers make films today, which are so often reliant on effects or shot in boring ways just to easily understand the jokes.  Polanski does these small, surprising things throughout the film.  The drawback of some of his staging, however, is at times, a stiffness and unnatural human behavior.  Some of this is justified in the story telling and character - about a paranoid germaphobe who recoils at the touch of men.  But still.  Naturalism, it is not, and that seems to be how the contemporary audience likes it's media.  I think it will come across to many as dated.