071...La belle captive (1983)....GABRIELLE LAZURE

LA BELLE CAPTIVE

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1983 France

AKA: The Beautiful Prisoner

"An erotic, virtual reality puzzle for the adventurous viewer........Motifs from vampire films and erotic thrillers are interwoven with more hermetic scenes, but it's somehow all held together by the repeated image of a black clad woman riding a motorcycle."

Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet 

Starring: Daniel Mesguich, Gabrielle Lazure, Cyrielle Claire

Avant-garde / Experimental, Surrealist Film.....Rated R for Nudity

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"Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte's paintings. In the morning, the girl, Marie-Ange, has vanished, the villa looks derelict, and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a nightmare?"

"LA BELLE CAPTIVE may be Robbe-Grillet's most entertaining and accomplished film. It dazzles the eye by creating a series of secret encounters inspired by Magritte's surrealist painting, which the director named his film after. You don't have to know anything about art to enjoy this film, though. Motifs from vampire films and erotic thrillers are interwoven with more hermetic scenes, but it's somehow all held together by the repeated image of a black clad woman riding a motorcycle. The central situation of a man on a mysterious sexual mission and some individual scenes bear a striking resemblance to Stanley Kubrick's EYES WIDE SHUT (1999)."

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CAST

Daniel Mesguich .... Walter Raim
Gabrielle Lazure .... Marie-Ange van de Reeves
Cyrielle Claire .... Sara Zeitgeist
Daniel Emilfork .... Inspector Francis
Roland Dubillard .... Prof van de Reeves
François Chaumette .... Dr. Morgentodt
Gilles Arbona .... Barman
Arielle Dombasle .... Le barman
Jean-Claude Leguay .... Le valet
Nancy Van Slyke .... La serveuse
Denis Fouqueray .... Voix off de Walter
Michel Auclair .... La femme hystérique

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LANGUAGE......FRENCH

SUBTITLES.......NONE

RUNNING TIME.....1 Hour 28 Minutes

JACKET: ....French

PICTURE QUALITY:....Good/Fair

071...  La belle captive (1983)....GABRIELLE LAZURE ......Robbe Grillet

Lazure...1983 Film BELLE CAPTIVE Robbe Grillet...1,377...(MontrealCollectionPublic)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yMvpjiISmY
Published on Mar 6, 2010 by MontrealCollection

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