Roman Polanski
4 titles · european arthouse
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.
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