La Belle Captive (1983)

Highly Recommended
France
Feature Film
Original Title: La belle captive
Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Writers: Alain Robbe-Grillet, Franck Verpillat
Cinematographer: Henri Alekan
Cast: Daniel Mesguich, Cyrielle Clair, Daniel Emilfork, François Chaumette, Gabrielle Lazure

Robbe-Grillet’s enigmatic film – in which dreams, nightmares, fantasies, paintings, photographs, and beautiful women drift in and out of each other, forming a sexy, sensual, and disquieting psychological journey to nowhere in particular – comes across like a lost Hitchcock movie filtered through the eyes of René Magritte, and is just as alluringly wonderful as that would suggest. Iain.Stott