Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and Guy (John Cassavetes) Woodhouse, are a young couple that is installed in a nineteenth century building next to Central Park. There they meet Minnie (Ruth Gordon) and Roman (Sidney Blackmer) Castevet, a quirky elderly couple who will soon become involved in their lives. Rosemary will become pregnant after a night of nightmares, initiating a period of gestation, during which they feel that something strange is happening.
Polanski signs his great masterpiece, along with The Tenant (Le Locataire , 1976), in this extraordinary horror film which is the summit of the subgenus satanic. And does putting the subtlety and art to suggest, as opposed to cheap sensationalism other films of this kind, as the overly mythologized The Exorcist (The Exorcist , 1973) by William Friedkin.
This adaptation of Ira Levin's novel, was the leap to Hollywood filmmaker after leading European with titles like Knife in the Water ( W. Wodzie Noz, 1962), Repulsion ( Repulsion, 1965) or The Fearless Vampire Killers (Dance of the Vampires , 1967). The film earned fame and popularity to his head, however, surely would not have done to know what would be one result: the gruesome murder of his wife Sharon Tate (pregnant like Rosemary's character) to hands of several members of "The Family" Charles Manson for allegedly revealing many secrets related to Satanism in the film.
Rosemary's Baby remains one of the most terrifying film history by placing the fear in an everyday context and family in which all of us we can recognize. Polanski wisely manage the incursion of intriguing elements in the plot (the furniture of the apartment's previous tenant moved to fill a cupboard as if afraid that something would go from there, references to "black history" of the building, chanting rituals seem to come from the apartment next door, the suicide of the girl who lived with Castevet ...) which will crescendo, which manages to capture a steady state of anxiety and threat that eventually permeate the whole chilling story in its final stretch.
review this classic enables besides noticing the minute details that make it up, discover the treacherous and mischievous humor, polanskiano ultimately is in the same, above all in the attitude and behavior of the character that brings to life John Cassavetes.
entire cast is at a difficult surmountable, highlighting the fragile naivety with which Mia Farrow plays his scary Rosemary. Ruth Gordon, meanwhile, won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her successful composition of the sinister and meddlesome neighbor.
No comment I would like to conclude without referring to the ambiguous character who chairs a few moments of the film "In truth there is a conspiracy against Rosemary or everything is the result of paranoid disorder that causes your pregnancy? Obviously, the interpretation is much clearer here than in The Tenant , where ambiguity is extreme, but we ask this question, and says much for the expertise of its author.
" I do not want the viewer to think this or that, I just not sure of anything. It's the most interesting: the uncertainty " Roman Polanski.
Rating: masterpiece.
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