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Audience Member 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. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Alaine Robbe-Grillet's greatest piece of work. A surrealist masterpiece! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member 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 Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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