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Knife in the Water (1962) -- R. Polanski
Often beautiful to
look at it in sumptuous black and white, Polanski's first film, a three-hander,
already maintains a chilly distance from the characters. The distance between
the characters is also probed, as two men (husband and the young hitchhiker)
variously brag about their abilities or show off in front of the wife. The camera catches the sunlight and provides
a tactile sense of reality, but everything is surfaces and, in the end, no one
has been let inside.
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