Knife in the Water (1962)

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[Goffe]

beautifully shot (is any Polanski film not beautifully shot?), but quite tedious and lacking in substance, Jolanta Umecka is horrible in this, she can't make one facial expression. 45/100

Edited September 28, 2014 by Goffe R Swanson

[Jake Gittes]

(is any Polanski film not beautifully shot?)

Carnage, for sure. But if we're only talking about his classics, probably not.

[Jake Gittes]

As for the film, I dug it. Engaging characters and a simple-on-the-surface, yet tense story. Don't wanna go back to it though.

[acab]

To me it's one of the best directorial debuts ever. The story seems simple but it's really tense and hides a lot under the surface.

[luna]

all polanski films i've seen so far are great, except for the pianist which i am constantly revising downwards. this is no exception.

 

finally getting round to my urgent watchlist. this is a great character drama. more than anything, it's about the masculine compulsion toward oneupmanship, and this plays out on one of polanski's claustrophobic sets, with the water taking place of the apartment walls. not sure how much i liked the rather conventional infidelity plot turn, but otherwise excellent.

 

83/100