A martial drum beat, bagpipes, security lights in the blackness of a tunnel hurtle by like tracer bullets, then sunlight and blue sky. So opens The Girl on the Train and it’s hard to escape metaphorical preconceptions of life in/as motion when viewing this film. The best advice? If you want a metaphor to hang [...]
Read More Catherine Deneuve, Emilie Dequenne, Michel Blanc, Nicolas Duvauchelle, The Girl On the TrainOther Voices, Other Rooms: Acoustic Design in Roman Polanski’s Repulsion (1965) As the title sequence of Roman Polanski‘s Repulsion suggests, with its violation of the human eye in closeup by thin striations of text, the film we are about to watch is one concerned with altered perceptions. Like the infamous razoring scene from Luis Buñuel‘s [...]
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