Cul-de-sac (1966)

Directed by

Roman Polanski

Genre

drama film, comedy film, comedy thriller

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

16

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 311 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two gangsters take refuge in the remote castle of a young British couple. The gangsters play mind games and cause violent encounters with the couple. The film follows these events in a tense and darkly comic way.

tensebleakunsettlingdarkly comicslow-burnclaustrophobiceccentric

What happens

Cul-de-sac is a 1966 British black comedy psychological thriller film directed by Roman Polanski, written by Polanski and Gérard Brach, and starring Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander and Jack MacGowran, with Iain Quarrier, Geoffrey Sumner, Renée Houston, William Franklyn, Marie Kean and Trevor Delaney in supporting roles. It also features Jacqueline Bisset in a small role, in her second film appearance. Polanski's second English-language feature, it follows two injured gangsters who take refuge in the remote island castle of a young British couple in the North of England, spurring a series of mind games and violent altercations. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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