Wuchak
Mid-60s art house flick is dramatically tedious, but has interesting themes
A diminutive artist (Donald Pleasence) lives with his much-younger French wife (Françoise Dorléac) in a castle on a tidal island in northern England. When a gruff gangster (Lionel Stander) shows up on their doorstep havoc ensues. Iain Quarrier, William Franklyn and a young Jacqueline Bisset show up for peripheral parts.
"Cul-de-Sac" (1966) is one of Roman Polanski's early experiments, a freestyle B&W psychological crime dramedy that takes elements of The Damned (1963), Touch of Evil (1958) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and mixes them with black humor and the theme of the later Straw Dogs (1971). Jack Nicholson cited it as his favorite film, which m...