Roman Polanski

Paranoia in confined space. Polanski traps people in apartments and houses and lets the psychological threat stay indistinguishable from the real one, with the audience denied a reliable vantage point.

Signature

• Apartments and enclosed interiors as pressure chambers.
• Subjective distortion — sound, geometry, perspective — without confirmation.
• Isolated protagonists whose reliability erodes.
• Wide lenses close in, warping domestic space.