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Knife in the Water
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On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker. When the hitchhiker joins the couple, psychological warfare breaks out as the two men compete for the woman's attention.
On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker. When the hitchhiker joins the couple, psychological warfare breaks out as the two men compete for the woman's attention.
Actors:
Jolanta Umecka,
Leon Niemczyk,
Zygmunt Malanowicz,
Roman Polanski,
Anna Ciepielewska
Jolanta Umecka
Leon Niemczyk
15 December 1923, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Zygmunt Malanowicz
4 February 1938, Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
Roman Polanski
18 August 1933, Paris, France
Anna Ciepielewska
January 7, 1936 in Ostróg, Wolynskie, Poland [now Ostroh, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine]
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Middle-aged cocksureness, arrogance and incomprehension versus teenage revolt, with a young woman as a sort of arbiter, is the theme of this lively and inventive little pic.
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Knife in the Water has one of those simple, clearly expressed narratives that grabs you and holds you even though not much goes on.
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The acting, music and camerawork all weave together to create an unexpectedly magical, brilliantly crafted, intensely sensuous experience.
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Knife In The Water is a claustrophobic, slow-burning expose of jealousy, spite and eroticism.
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The sexual tensions build slowly and subtly, and when they explode into violence, it seems to be the desired result.
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...a dazzling black-and-white chamber piece
Bosley Crowther
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It eminently justifies the interest in its acid contents and in the techniques of its young director that it stirred.
