{"id":5841,"date":"2018-03-27T20:42:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T03:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=5841"},"modified":"2018-04-23T19:00:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T02:00:47","slug":"polanskis-cul-de-sac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/polanskis-cul-de-sac\/","title":{"rendered":"Polanski\u2019s \u201cCul-de-Sac\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5843\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cul-de-Sac-Poster.jpg\" alt=\"Cul de Sac movie poster\" width=\"500\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cul-de-Sac-Poster.jpg 500w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cul-de-Sac-Poster-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Director<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000591\/?ref_=tt_ov_dr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roman Polanski<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Writers<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000591\/?ref_=tt_ov_wr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roman Polanski<\/a> (original screenplay), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0102722\/?ref_=tt_ov_wr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">G\u00e9rard Brach<\/a> (original screenplay) (as Gerard Brach)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cinematography<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0852405\/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gilbert Taylor <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Music: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0006156\/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Krzysztof Komeda <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stars<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000587\/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Pleasence<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0233753\/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fran\u00e7oise Dorl\u00e9ac<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0822034\/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lionel Stander<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0532290\/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack MacGowran, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000302\/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jacqueline Bisset<\/a> (as Jackie Bisset)<\/p>\n<h2>Polanski\u2019s \u201cCul-de-Sac\u201d<\/h2>\n<p><em>By Walt Mundkowsky<br \/>\n<\/em>(mostly written in London, 1969)<\/p>\n<p>By this viewer\u2019s idiosyncratic standards, <strong><em>Cul-de-Sac<\/em><\/strong> (1966) is Roman Polanski\u2019s sole brush with greatness, and the only feature to keep faith with the surrealist metaphors and perceptions of his celebrated short films. It\u2019s his most bizarrely funny, as well as his most serious work.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Cul-de-Sac<\/em><\/strong> takes a <strong><em>Desperate Hours<\/em><\/strong>-style situation (criminals on the run invade a normal household) and turns it on its head. George is a fiftyish English factory owner who has sold his business and retired to a fortress-like structure on Lindisfarne, a barren island (except at low tide) off the Northumberland coast. Teresa, his young French wife of a few months, busies herself homebrewing vodka, raising chickens, and advertising her sexual wares to passing males. Into this amalgam of character and landscape come Dicky and Albert, two gangsters wounded in a bungled robbery attempt. This quartet is reduced to a trio when Albert dies during the night. Dicky waits for Katelbach, his boss, to mount a rescue, but it never happens. The accumulated tensions heighten as a party of George\u2019s former associates drops by unannounced. After George forces them off his property, Dicky calls Katelbach again and realizes that he\u2019s been abandoned.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5845\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Donald-Pleasence-and-Lionel-Stander-2.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Pleasence and Lionel Stander in a scene from 'Cul-de-Sac'\" width=\"850\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Donald-Pleasence-and-Lionel-Stander-2.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Donald-Pleasence-and-Lionel-Stander-2-600x375.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Donald-Pleasence-and-Lionel-Stander-2-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Donald-Pleasence-and-Lionel-Stander-2-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Polanski is here much influenced by the Theatre of the Absurd. Indeed, the proceedings might be profitably described as a cast of Ionesco characters, their outrageous humors and quirks on parade, playing at Beckett\u2019s <strong><em>Waiting for Godot<\/em><\/strong>. The shifting power alliances among this trio are pitilessly observed; more pessimistic still is the sense that each of them is a solitary planet incapable of contacting the others, obeying physical laws they comprehend only fleetingly.<\/p>\n<p>This is by several miles Polanski\u2019s most ambitious and singular directing achievement. His unnerving use of the setting\u2019s potential for entrapment, his instinct for the detail that clinches a line of development, his restless but purposeful editing touch \u2014 all these cohere into a moral argument presented in scathing terms. And Krzysztof Komeda\u2019s off-kilter jazz is itself almost an individual personage \u2014 catchily melodic, texturally grating.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5844\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Donald-Pleasence.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Pleasence in a scene from 'Cul-de-Sac'\" width=\"850\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Donald-Pleasence.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Donald-Pleasence-600x375.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Donald-Pleasence-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Donald-Pleasence-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The lead performances are as much a triumph of casting as of directing; they reinforce Polanski\u2019s view of human nature by having virtually nothing to do with each other. Donald Pleasance\u2019s George is a career best, and somewhat related to his brilliant Davies in Harold Pinter\u2019s play <strong><em>The Caretaker<\/em><\/strong>. In both we are invited to see the desperation lurking beneath the character\u2019s picky, hectoring surface. Pleasance\u2019s skill at shifting in mid-syllable from a command to a confession still astounds. Teresa is a nearly unactable monster as written \u2014 conniving, dishonest, juvenile. Fran\u00e7oise Dorl\u00e9ac (older sister of Catherine Deneuve, and tragically dead in an auto accident the following year) at least gives her a coquettish playfulness that renders the extravagances bearable. Lionel Stander has less operating room than they do, by Polanski\u2019s design. Dicky is a none-too-bright career criminal and a blustering brute besides, but he\u2019s the sanest of this unholy threesome. Stander delivers the primary tones unfailingly. Jack MacGowran, one of Samuel Beckett\u2019s prized performers, makes the most of Albert\u2019s deathbed scene. The young Jacqueline Bisset (billed as Jackie Bisset) is a sharp and snotty delight as the guest who notices too much.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5842\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Francoise-Dorleac-2.jpg\" alt=\"Francoise Dorleac in a scene from 'Cul-de-Sac'\" width=\"850\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Francoise-Dorleac-2.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Francoise-Dorleac-2-600x360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Francoise-Dorleac-2-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Francoise-Dorleac-2-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An account of Dorl\u00e9ac\u2019s death figures in Derek Marlowe\u2019s novel <strong><em>Echoes of Celandine<\/em><\/strong> (1970, The Viking Press, Inc.) \u2014<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOn one page, her face stares out at me (beautiful, alert, almost boyish \u2026). It is the face non-Europeans neither produce nor ever appreciate. It is too strong and yet fragile, too independent, too revealing \u2014 not only of the owner but also of the onlooker \u2014 and too defiantly feminine. (\u2026) she out-Eves Eve in expression alone. If her body has been left to medical science, her eyes, at least, ought to have been left to Tiffany\u2019s.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI make a note of the actress\u2019s name and attempt to tear the photograph from the magazine, but it is stapled badly, the picture tears, and I am left with half her face in my hand (right eye, a triangle of soft rain of hair, the crescent shadow of a cheekbone) and so drop the magazine, reluctantly, in pieces, on to the floor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt is not my night.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>(p. 91)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By this viewer\u2019s idiosyncratic standards, Cul-de-Sac (1966) is Roman Polanski\u2019s sole brush with greatness, and the only feature to keep faith with the surrealist metaphors and perceptions of his celebrated short films. 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