☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Rosemary's Baby (1968) -- R. Polanski
A perennial favorite
and one of those films that you wish you could go back and watch for the very
first time again. Polanski provides just
enough ambiguity (but not too much) for us to feel that Mia Farrow is, perhaps,
going insane -- after all the odds would seem to suggest that outcome is more
certain. But most audiences will know
too much and the thrill is in hoping that Satan is real. You know the story: actor John Cassavetes and wife move into NYC
apartment building (where John Lennon was shot) and meet vivacious older couple
(Ruth Gordon and Sidney Blackmer in astonishing performances). Have they seduced the husband into joining
their witches' coven? The evidence mounts.
One of the great ones.
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