Product: Rosemary's Baby (El Bebe de Rosemary) [ NON-USA FORMAT, NTSC, Reg.4 Import - Latin America ] (1968)
Rating: 5.0
VISCERAL
Rosemary's Baby is a hands down good film. I loved the almost psychedelic scenes where she's drugged into a kind of half-sleep whereupon she's prepared and then served up to the devil. Great cinematography here if you can pull yourself out of the content enough to notice the shots. Rosemary's Baby has a great feel - it just keeps wratcheting up the tension, and meanwhile you get to check out the 60s fashions and little touches (her craving for meat - her reflection in the toaster as she munches a chicken heart). The music was good too. The sound track almost makes you nausious as she staggers around in the elevator as she tries to escape those she feels threaten her baby.But what made this film effective for me was her paranoia. As the movie continues, as do her suspicions, you know she sounds crazy - and yet she's right! You know she's right (cause you can just tell those guys are up to no good), and yet by any sane person's standards, her story sounds like that of a paranoid schizophrenic!Of course the plot is somewhat preposterous, and for a moment near the end there, it almost went over the top. But then it pulls itself back together and leaves you with a realistic dilemma (realistic for this movie) - what do you do if you've just given birth to the son of Satan? Even the devil's son needs a mother, and Rosemary, sensitive soul that she is... can her knowledge of who, what, she's given birth to overcome the strength of her maternal instinct?Incidentally, the retrospective interviews and 'making of rosemary's baby' featurette are fantastic! you get a really in-depth look at Roman and Mia around the time of the film. you can really feel that 67 summer of love vibe in the background. mia farrow comes off as quite the hippie - but an intelligent and talented one at that - an interesting contrast to the movie you've just seen.