CUL-DE-SAC   Director: Roman Polanski Year: 1966 Runtime: 111 min. Country: UK Language: English Color: B&W Format: 16mm

Donald Pleasence and Françoise Dorleac play a mismatched couple - he effeminate and petulant, she sensual and enigmatic - who share a bizarre relationship, living in a remote 11th-century castle. Their very isolation from the world prevents their eccentric partnership from foundering. Only an outsider can disrupt their make-believe lifestyle. That disruption arrives in the belligerent form of Richard and Albert, two oddball gangsters straight out of a 1940's film noir, wounded, desperate, and on the run. One of director Roman Polanski’s most fascinating and criminally underrated movies of the 1960’s, CUL-DE-SAC is by turns a surreal black comedy, existential arthouse drama and twisted thriller. "Roman Polanski's second British film is a mean little absurdist comedy... it's also one of the best and purest of all his works." — Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader "This is very much Polanski as we have come to know him: ghoulish black comedy; the pain of solitude; pride; a touch of masochism; and above all, people and objects at odds with a landscape." — Tom Milne, Sight and Sound "CUL-DE-SAC is exaggerated, sinister, bleak, and spine-tingling. Well worth seeing for the radiance of the late Dorleac." — Motion Picture Guide     showtime Monday, May 7 at 7 pm location THE GREEN ROOM 144 West Street admission $6 general / $4 GBFS members

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