Knife in the Water (2-DVD Special Edition)
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 30, 2003
- Originally Released: 1963
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Leon Niemczyk, Zygmunt Malanowicz & Jolanta Umecka | |
Directed by | Roman Polanski | |
Edited by | Halina Prugar | |
Screenwriting by | Jerzy Skolimowski, Roman Polanski & Jakub Goldberg | |
Composition by | Krzysztof Komeda | |
Produced by | Stanislaw Zylewicz | |
Director of Photography: | Jerzy Lipman |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A --
Taut, compelling, and engaging, Polanski's Oscar-nominated thriller is one of the most brilliant debuts in film history.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
...[The film] has a taut and creepy impact, like a bug crawling up your arm...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/5 --
It eminently justifies the interest in its acid contents and in the techniques of its young director that it stirred.
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New York Times
Polanski's first feature, a model of economic, imaginative film-making which, in many ways, he has hardly improved upon since.
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Time Out
...It still compels watching these head games play out...
USA Today
Knife in the Water has one of those simple, clearly expressed narratives that grabs you and holds you even though not much goes on.
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 4/5 --
Attests to the idea that Polanski was from the very onset, a filmmaker with a singular and disturbing vision. His is clearly a cinema of obsession.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Product Description:
Roman Polanski's first feature-length film is a suspenseful three-person chamber drama reminiscent of the work of Ingmar Bergman. KNIFE IN THE WATER was filmed in the director's native Poland and financed through government subsidies. Although denounced by local authorities as devoid of any significant social or political content, the film caused a minor sensation in the West, was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Film, and even made the cover of Time magazine. The action takes place almost entirely within the confined setting of a sailboat owned by a wealthy journalist (Leon Niemczyk) and his much younger wife (Jolanta Umecka). On their way to the lake for a weekend of sailing, they are accosted by a young hitchhiker (Zygmunt Malanowicz) who jumps in front of their car, forcing them to stop. Annoyed by the youth's daredevil posturing, the journalist nevertheless decides to invite him to join the couple on their boat, initiating a series of playfully competitive games between the two men. Playfulness soon gives way to hostility, however, as each tries to outshine and humiliate the other in front of the woman, who appears to be taking a more than casual interest in her husband's young rival.
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- UPC: 037429149324
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