repulsion
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Soderbergh delights in confusing the truth for a spell, particularly in a weird, frenzied sequence that plays like a psych-ward remix of Roman Polanski's classic "Repulsion."
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2018
I would say, however, that Roman Polanski’s film Repulsion had a huge effect on me.
From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2016
But Rachel Herz, a smell scientist and author of That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion, thinks it can be done.
From Slate • Dec. 27, 2013
Repulsion at the ham’s sickly flesh smell fuelled Jane’s impossible swift acts.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 2, 2012
Repulsion has only the one element, the element of severance.
From Sadhana : the realisation of life by Tagore, Rabindranath
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