Enfant du Siècle’s review published on Letterboxd:
A wounded criminal seeks refuge for himself and a badly injured partner, and ends up taking as hostages a bourgeois couple who live isolated in an 11th century castle. George is petty and idle, a man with no character who is constantly emasculated by his wife Teresa, an unsatisfied, unfaithful and capricious young woman. These grotesque characters are put in situations that border on the absurd and gradually expose their battered psychologies behind an apparent normality.
Cul-de-sac is a disturbing story about the emotional violence of a series of characters trapped in their personal tragedies from which they seem unable to escape. It's a fascinatingly bizarre film that has to be given time to immerse oneself fully in its strange characters and sense of humour. By the way, I hadn't noticed that Françoise Dorléac has such a delightful laugh.