Alain Robbe-Grillet, who penned the script for LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD and wrote and directed L'IMMORTELLE and TRANS-EUROPE EXPRESS, is responsible for this allegorical melange filled with symbolism, dream sequences, fantasy, and...are you asleep yet? With music by Shubert and Duke Ellington
(can you imagine those two jamming together?), Robbe-Grillet takes us into Walter's (Daniel Mesguich) mind for a roller-coaster ride. He and wife Sara (Cyrielle) move into a new abode, and he promptly falls in love with a mysterious young woman who vanishes, then reappears. He subsequently learns
that she died seven years ago. This is told to him by her father, a physician who i...
Released:
1983
Rated:
NR
Length:
88 mins