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      Gradiva

      2006 1h 53m Drama Mystery & Thriller List
      Reviews 50% 100+ Ratings Audience Score While researching the North African work of painter Eugéne Delacroix, a British historian becomes entangled in a waking, sado-masochistic dream in Morocco. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Kind of an adaptation of Wilhelm Jensen's novel, but blended with historical elements of Delacroix's time in Morocco. A film that strives to be erotic, but doesn't really manage to be. The film follows a sort of dream logic that worked against it having any real stakes for me. Not terrible, but not particularly interesting either. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Pretentious, tedious, cliche ,monotony about a biographer of Eugene Delacroix who has dreams about an executed woman connected with the artist while doing research in Morocco. A very interesting concept executed lifelessly by an inept but self-assured director. It's all dreams, and the director's use of dream "rules" leaves his film entirely inaccessible. Delacroix is mainly an excuse here; the dream imagery is entirely generic. The lead character is aloof and unlikable, and the whole film goes nowhere fast. Pretty but vapid film-making that insists on its own nonexistent cleverness. It was probably more entertaining to watch the paint dry on a Delacroix canvass than it is to sit through this dragged-out mess. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member One of Robbe-Grillets most linear surrealist films. He still had an incredible talent for creating films a couple years prior to his death in 2008. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Vuonna 2008 kuolleen Robbe-Grillet'n viimeiseksi jäänyt ohjaustyö houkuttaa edeltäjiensä äärelle. Toivottavasti niitä löytyy jostakin, videotallenteina. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Really a ** or **1/2 star movie, but there's far two much nudity, bondage, sadism, and blood for me to rate it any lower. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Absolute and utter rubbish, gets two stars only because some of the women are attractive (Marie Espinosa). Who would say this is the same Alain Robbe-Grillet who wrote such interesting novels and whose screenplay is the basis of 'Last Year at Marienbad'? He really shouldn't have tried directing. He falls into the same lazy antics as other ageing European auteurs who exploit their position (and, I suspect use the opportunity to look at beautiful young women) to pass off soft porn as art. And Arielle Dombasle looks like she was cut from a large block of pale blonde wood. She should be sold at Ikea. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis While researching the North African work of painter Eugéne Delacroix, a British historian becomes entangled in a waking, sado-masochistic dream in Morocco.
      Director
      Alain Robbe-Grillet
      Screenwriter
      Alain Robbe-Grillet
      Production Co
      Eurimages, Canal+, Les Films du Lendemain, Arte France Cinema, Acajou Films, Centre National de la Cinematographie
      Genre
      Drama, Mystery & Thriller
      Original Language
      French (Canada)
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jan 19, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 53m