La Belle Captive

1983

1h 28m

Mystery & Thriller

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100+ Ratings

A man (Daniel Mesguich) becomes trapped in a nightmarish world when he discovers a woman (Gabrielle Lazure) he spent the night with died seven years earlier.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

No more cohesive than any of the other puzzling titles in his filmography, the stunning work from [director of photography] Henri Alekan enlivens Grillet's captivating erotic noir tropes.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 29, 2020

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

A ripe, hallucinogenic field theory by Alain Robbe-Grillet

Nov 15, 2009

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

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

Rated: C+

Apr 5, 2008

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Louis Proyect

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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.

Jun 8, 2007

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(***): [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] A very strange French mystery film.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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A self-conscious exercise in surrealism from Robbe-Grillet. One of those films perhaps best left for "random middle of the night weird movie viewings", as plotwise it is pure nonsense but has some striking visual imagery, notably the references to Magritte paintings. Unlike some of the best dream-logic films it never feels like there is a solid foundation to the film, and feels like arty/sexy/fetishy strangeness for strangeness sake.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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I was confused the whole time.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Alain Robbe-Grillet does his thing again

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/15/23

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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 really 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.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Alain Robbe-Grillet

Director

Daniel Mesguich

Walter Raim

Gabrielle Lazure

Marie-Ange van de Reeves

Cyrielle Clair

Sara Zeitgeist

Daniel Emilfork

Inspector Francis

Roland Dubillard

Prof. van de Reeves

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Synopsis

A man (Daniel Mesguich) becomes trapped in a nightmarish world when he discovers a woman (Gabrielle Lazure) he spent the night with died seven years earlier.

Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Producer: Bernard Bouix
Screenwriter: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: French (Canada)
Runtime: 1h 28m