what be polanski absolute nadir . it incredible that and help by his excellent collaborator gerard brach and he could produce nothing but this drivel representit an insult to mention such name a carroll ( the elevator be the mirror . ) or borges . the dialog be never funny and be mean and vulgar and pretentious and almost exclusively revolve around sex . polanski himself appear a he do in the fearless vampire killer and later would in the highly superior chinatown and le locataire ( the tenant ) . at a pinch and you might find something polanskiesque in this turkey representthe conspiracy against a lonesome hero and like in his masterful rosemary baby or the tenant while the claustrophobia which be present in almost all polanski canon and not only the two mention work and but also repulsion cul de sac knife in the water death and the maiden and all these story which happen in camera . the carroll or borges subject will be use again by claude chabrol in 1976 in his alice ou la dernière fugue with much good result . for polanski diehard . barely .