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La Belle Captive

 

  Written by Directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet

France 1983 / Avant-Garde / Experiment / Surrealist / 90 min / Color / Dolby 2.0 / 1.66: 1 Widescreen Anamorphic / NTSC /  In French with Optional English Subtitles

Daniel Mesguich , Gabrielle Lazure , Cyrielle Claire , Daniel Emilfork, Roland Dubillard, Francois Chaumette

This French film has a plot that sounds like an expansion of an urban legend. Walter (Daniel Mesguich) and Sara (Cyrielle Claire) are a married couple who have just moved into a new home together. Everything seems to be going well, despite Walter's fascination with a mysterious woman named Marie-Ange (Gabrielle Lazure) in a nightclub. Then one night, running an errand for Sara, Walter finds Marie-Ange tied up in the middle of the road. He takes her to the nearest villa, hoping to contact a doctor, but he only ends up locked in a bedroom with her. In the midst of their inevitable passion, visions of Magritte paintings dance in Walter's head, for some reason. In the morning, Marie-Ange is gone and Walter's neck is bleeding.

 
       
Bonus Features: Original French theatrical trailer