ACE Presents: Rosemary's Baby
Director: Roman Polanski
1968 / 137min / 35mm
“He has his father’s eyes…” Satanists are on the loose in Central Park West in Polanski’s slow-burn thriller, which slips almost imperceptibly from the quotidian into the profane, and gives new meaning to the phrase “pregnancy scare.” Young marrieds Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes make friendly with their elder neighbors Ruth Gordon and Sidney Blackmer, but when Farrow’s abandoned and isolated Rosemary goes into a paranoiac tailspin while expecting her first child, she begins to wonder why everyone is so very eager for her to take her daily dosage of tannis root… A masterclass in slow-building, spine-tingling suspense, aided immeasurably by the dab-handed work of legendary editor Sam O’Steen.
Distributor: Paramount
Q&A with film historian Bobbie O’Steen moderated by music editor Suzana Peric on Saturday, October 24th
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