La Belle Captive DVD
A writer, a filmmaker, and a member of the Academie francaise, Alain Robbe-Grillet was a one of the most controversial filmmakers in the history of French cinema.
Now for the first time ever a brand new restored version of the erotic, surreal cult classic La Belle Captive will be available on DVD.
La Belle Captive, one of Robbe-Grille’s most controversial films, was a precursor to David Lynch’s world of enigmatic and dreamlike encounters and this brand new version, remastered from the original 35mm negative, will be released on DVD on 14 September 2009 courtesy of Second Sight.
On his way to deliver a letter for his boss, Walter finds a beautiful woman that he had met in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, only to end up being locked in a bedroom with her.
They fall for one another, and end up in the throes of passion, though the next morning, the girl has vanished, the villa looks derelict and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a dream?
Beginning his career in the 1950s, Alain Robbe-Grillet was, as well as a phenomenally talented filmmaker, a novelist and literary theorist.
He had a profound influence on the French literary scene, going on to have a massive effect internationally, the writer of numerous manifestos that shook the literary world and a pioneer of the new novel.
La Belle Captive is released 14th September.