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Review of by Desson Thomson for Washington Post — 30 Jul 1990

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Frantic is vintage Polanski, with its relentless paranoia, irony, diffident strangers and nutty cameos. And Polanski forgoes the mood-marshalling Hitchcock cellos for his own brand of good old quiet tension -- here made eerier by Witold Sobocinski's high and low camera angles.

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This review of Frantic (1988) was written by and published by Washington Post on 30 Jul 1990.

Frantic has generally received positive reviews.

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