FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Roman Polanski - Cul-De-Sac 

Cul-De-Sac remains a comedy in which Donald Pleasance has to walk around with his head askew. Polanski's film is the inversion of classic gangster films: Until then, it was criminals who threatened the lives of a middle-class family. Intruders from outside, from the unknown. In Polanski's parody, however, the criminals are bourgeois and their victims crazy. The great influence Polanski's film has had on psotmodern gangster cinema is made clear by the motif of the crime gone wrong. In Cul-De-Sac, the failed crooks must therefore wait for Katelbach, but he never comes. Beckett is the godfather in this absurd play.