Roman Polanski’s first American feature film, set in The Dakota in Manhattan, is a claustrophobic horror that taps brilliantly into the uncertainties and queasy potential threats of childbirth. Mia Farrow is gamine and vulnerable as Rosemary, the young wife who moves with her husband Guy (John Cassavetes) into a New York apartment building with a bad reputation. Very quickly she begins to feel that there is something not quite right about her overattentive neighbors. (dir. Roman Polanski, U.S., 1968, 136 min.)
