La Belle Captive
by Alain Robbe-Grillet
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Actor: Arielle Dombasle, Daniel Mesguich, Gabrielle LazureDirector: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Brand: Koch International
Audio: French (Original Language), Unknown; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Koch Lorber Films
Movie Reviews of La Belle Captive
Movie Review: a rare find
Summary: 5 Stars
I keep searching for Robbe-Grillet, and become frustrated. Nice to see that one has been released
Summary of La Belle Captive
Alain Robbe-Grillet's erotically-charged film portrays a married man's obsession with a mysterious woman who steps out of his fantasies. Walter (Daniel Mesguich) becomes fascinated with Marie-Ange (Gabrielle Lazure) after seeing her in a nightclub. One evening he finds her bound in the middle of the road. After a surreal night of passion, he awakens the next morning wondering if it all was just a dream.A sensuous, surreal drama in the manner of EYES WIDE SHUT and MULHOLLAND DRIVE
Along with his status as an important postwar writer of the New Novel school, Alain Robbe-Grillet's place in film history is secure thanks to his debut screenwriting effort, Last Year at Marienbad, the all-time puzzle picture. His own directing efforts have been less accessible outside France, but the 1983 La Belle Captive represents the Robbe-Grillet idea. R-G based the movie on his own novel, which was itself inspired by the paintings of Magritte. The set-up is one of those nightmare-chasing-its-own-tail scenarios: a man (Daniel Mesguich) becomes entranced by a young woman (Gabrielle Lazure) dancing in a nightclub, but later that night he finds her crumpled body on the road. The woman becomes his obsession; meanwhile, his boss (who happens to be a hot babe on a motorcycle) gives him a mysterious assignment. Any initial intrigue on either the erotic or whodunit front quickly dissipates in a maddening series of teases, and even if you like reality/fantasy/dream interplay, your patience may grow thin after a while. The movie's cheapjack '80s look doesn't help, but more than anything La Belle Captive reminds us of the difference between a writer, however talented, and a real director, like Alain Resnais. Resnais' direction of Last Year at Marienbad is an elegant glide into ever-deepening mysteries of place, personality, and memory, but Robbe-Grillet's direction of La Belle Captive never finds wings for its ideas. --Robert Horton
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