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Daniel Mesguich, Gabrielle Lazure, Cyrielle Claire, Daniel Emilfork, Roland Dubillard ... see more see more... , François Chaumette , Arielle Dombasle , Gilles Arbona , Michel Auclair , Cyrielle Clair

This French film has a plot that sounds like an expansion of an urban legend. Walter (Daniel Mesguich) and Sara (Cyrielle Claire) are a married couple who have just moved into a new home together. Eve... read more read more...rything seems to be going well, despite Walter's fascination with a mysterious woman named Marie-Ange (Gabrielle Lazure) in a nightclub. Then one night, running an errand for Sara, Walter finds Marie-Ange tied up in the middle of the road. He takes her to the nearest villa, hoping to contact a doctor, but he only ends up locked in a bedroom with her. In the midst of their inevitable passion, visions of Magritte paintings dance in Walter's head, for some reason. In the morning, Marie-Ange is gone and Walter's neck is bleeding. ~ John Voorhees, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 28 min.

Directed by: Alain Robbe-Grillet

Release Date: February 16, 1983

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DVD Release Date: March 13, 2007

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  • GabrielKnight
    March 20, 2011
    GabrielKnight
    One way to describe this movie as "bizarre" (which is kind of funny as being French-language film, you actually hear the characters use the word on a few occasions). The story (if you can call it that) develops in a dream-like fashion, kind of like a David Lynch movie. Nothing r... read moreeally makes sense, but is it really supposed to, if it's a dream? The director masterfully misleads the view into thinking he's following a story as all of a sudden everything is thrown up in the air and nothing makes sense anymore. But somehow it's a mesmerizing experience - truly an art movie.

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Fernando F. Croce
November 15, 2009
Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

A ripe, hallucinogenic field theory by Alain Robbe-Grillet Full Review

Dennis Schwartz
April 5, 2008
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Trying to make sense out of this film is like waiting for a dwarf to grow. Full Review

Louis Proyect
June 8, 2007
Louis Proyect, rec.arts.movies.reviews

Surrealist curiosity directed by Robbe-Grillet. Has the effect overall of a Ridley Scott Chanel commercial. Will certainly hold one's attention even if the plot is incomprehensible. Full Review

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