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07/29/2011 Alain Robbe-Grillet ventures (again) into the realms of the absurd and the subconscious in this Left Bank new wave film. I loved this, even if I have still to make sense out of some parts of this elliptic but abstract piece of visual art. See more 04/07/2011 Alaine Robbe-Grillet's greatest piece of work. A surrealist masterpiece! See more 02/08/2010 Robbe-Grillet is famous for his novels, but his films, which are just as great, almost never get seen. I watched this four times last night. See more 02/05/2009 Have to give it up for Robbe-Grillet for making a movie that makes zero sense until about 15 minutes before it's over. And even then... what!? I suspect this has something to do with French Colonialism. Surprisingly worth sitting through, although you'd never know it from the first half-hour. See more 08/21/2008 This film is like a bizarre mix of Godard, Antonioni, and Jodorowsky. Its incredibly intoxicating film that consists of a completely abstract narrative. Words cannot describe this film but it is a work of art and an amazing film See more 08/08/2008 An absolutely mind-blowing film, easily the best I've seen from Alain Robbe-Grillet. Intoxicatingly erotic, the film follows a group of post 1968 Parisian hedonistic youths who act out perverse, sado-erotic fantasies in a cafe which the film is named after. The arrival of a stranger who introduces several new games to them triggers a hallucinogenic, baffling chain of events that takes them to an exotic locale in Tunisia, where the earlier role-playing skits enacted by the students take on the most dangerous forms of torture chambers where beautiful young women are chained and crucified. Where these images are hallucinations is not clear, the narrative is so abstract and rarified that it remains a unsolvable puzzle in the same sense as Grillet's first work - the equally dazzling and mind-boggling Last Year at Marienbad. See more Read all reviews

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