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La Belle Captive

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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.

Critics Reviews

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Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 10/29/2020
3/5
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. Go to Full Review
Fernando F. Croce CinePassion 11/15/2009
A ripe, hallucinogenic field theory by Alain Robbe-Grillet Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 04/05/2008
C+
Trying to make sense out of this film is like waiting for a dwarf to grow. Go to Full Review
Louis Proyect rec.arts.movies.reviews 06/08/2007
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. Go to Full Review
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11/23/2012 (***): [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] A very strange French mystery film. See more 09/13/2011 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. See more 07/21/2011 Click : http://www.famalegoods.com jordan shoes $32 nike shox $32 Christan Audigier bikini $23 Ed Hardy Bikini $23 Smful short_t-shirt_woman $15 ed hardy short_tank_woman$16 Sandal$32 christian loubo utin $80 Sunglass $15 COACH_Necklace $27 handbag $33AF tank woman $17 puma slipper woman $30 http://www.famalegoods.com See more 06/19/2011 I was confused the whole time. See more 05/02/2011 Alain Robbe-Grillet does his thing again See more 03/20/2011 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. See more Read all reviews
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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
Screenwriter
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
Canadian French
Runtime
1h 28m