A woman rents her bungalow to a man who loves cooking, but according to her distorted mind he uses his knives more than he should.
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An eerily effective little thriller that cleverly uses agoraphobia as its lynchpin.
aka Kitchen Privileges. This is a lethargic, deathly slow-paced take on the Roman Polanski classic Repulsion, only bereft of imagination. Marie's agoraphobia is played in a bizarre, totally unrealistic fashion, and Katharina Wressnig's performance alternates between sleepwalking and shrillness. Very little works here
October 26, 2009Super Reviewer
Housebound, made nearly a decade ago and just now receiving distribution in the US under the vague title "Kitchen Privileges", is about a rape victim who is so traumatized that she has turned agoraphobic and refuses to leave her house. Soon, she gets a tenant who may or may not be a serial killer, but his charm and
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