La Belle Captive (1983)
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59% of users liked it
(170 ratings)
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… More 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. ~ John Voorhees, Rovi
- Directed By
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Special Interest
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Feb 16, 1983 Wide
- On DVD
- Mar 13, 2007
- Studio
- Koch Vision
Critic Reviews
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Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
A ripe, hallucinogenic field theory by Alain Robbe-Grillet
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Trying to make sense out of this film is like waiting for a dwarf to grow.
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Louis Proyect, rec.arts.movies.reviews
Surrealist curiosity directed by Robbe-Grillet. Has the effect overall of a Ridley Scott Chanel commercial. Will certainly hold one's attention even if the plot is incomprehensible.
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Cast
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Daniel Mesguich
as Walter
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Gabrielle Lazure
as Marie-Ange
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Cyrielle Claire
as Sara
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Daniel Emilfork
as Inspector Francis
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Roland Dubillard
as Van de Reeves
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François Chaumette
as Dr. Morgentodt
- Arielle Dombasle
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Gilles Arbona
as Barman
- Michel Auclair
- Cyrielle Clair
