The Cinema of Alain Robbe-Grillet

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The Cinema of Alain Robbe-Grillet

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Redemption Films and Kino Classics have released a trailer with highlights from six films directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet (Last Year at Marienbad): L'Immortelle (1963), Trans-Europ-Express (1967), Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974), The Man Who Lies (1968), Eden and After (1970) and its alternative version N. a pris les dés... (1971). Later this year, all six films will be released on Blu-ray and DVD in the United States for the first time ever.

Trans-Europ Express

A film director, Jean, his producer, Marc, and his assistant, Lucette, board the Trans-Europ-Express in Paris bound for Antwerp. Once in their compartment it occurs to them that the drama of life aboard the train presents possibilities for a film, and they begin to write a script about dope smuggling. Subsequently, they see actor Jean-Louis Trintignant walking through the station. As seen through the eyes of Jean, Marc, and Lucette, Trintignant becomes Elias, the chief character in the script. Elias is going to Antwerp to pick up a suitcase of cocaine for delivery to an international organization based in Paris.

Successive Slidings of Pleasure

A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does have powers, to make all people around her fall prey to her spell, glissing progressively into desire, lust, and the unknown.

L'immortelle

A French-Turkish co-production L'Immortelle is an erotic, dream-like fantasy in which a despondent man meets a beautiful, secretive woman who may, or may not, be involved in using kidnapped women as prostitutes...

The Man Who Lies

After the war, a man who calls himself Boris Varissa and declares that he was once the wrestling partner of Jean Robin, a known partisan leader, visits his family. He discusses his past with his sister Sylvia, his wife Laura and his father, but each time his story is different ...

Eden and After

A group of disaffected students are shown a way out of their ennui (via a concoction he offers) by a man they meet at a café (the Eden of the title); Jourdan is supposed to have a night-time tryst with him at a factory but, on arriving for the appointment, she is intimidated by some of her fellow students and finds the man dead! Taking a clue from a postcard of an Arabian town found in the stranger's pocket, Jourdan gets mixed-up in espionage (the MacGuffin in this case being a valuable missing portrait), games of a sexual nature, drug-induced hallucinations and murder; eventually, we come full circle and the story returns to the Eden and the arrival once again of the stranger…(Synopsis courtesy of FilmAffinity).

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