‘Playing With Fire’ Will Burn the Uninitiated
Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Playing With Fire marks a curious effort when considered in the scope of cancel culture today, yet it compels nonetheless
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Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Litanies of Death and Desire
Often exploring the haunted depths of dissolute sexuality, Alain Robbe-Grillet reframes the ideas of longing and desire through repetitious narratives.
‘La Belle Captive’ Is a Beautiful Nightmare
Part murder-mystery, part erotic fever dream, Alain Robbe-Grillet’s La Belle Captive is a sumptuous nightmare.
‘La Belle Captive’ Invades Your Dreams
This Alain Robbe-Grillet film can get under the skin of anyone susceptible to its languid spell.
(Not So) Sex Obsessed: ‘Alain Robbe-Grillet: Six Films 1963-74’
The controversial French director's best known films are collected into this handsome six-film BFI box set, full of impressive nouvelle vague innovation.
Memory and Illusion in ‘L’Immortelle’
L’Immortelle explores Allain Robbe-Grillet’s themes of memory and illusion in a way that now seems crisp and beautiful.