#Bales2025FilmChallenge of March 12 a favourite non-Hitchcock mystery for #NationalHitchcockDay (USA)
L'immortelle (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1963)
https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-r1w7
A similar dreamlike mood can be found in Alain Robbe-Grillet's L’Immortelle (1963). Here it's L (Françoise Brion) who is or is not.
#OnThisDate, June 23, L'immortelle (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1963) is the #FilmDuJour
#AlainRobbeGrillet #FrançoiseBrion #JacquesDoniolValcroze #GuidoCelano #GeorgesDelerue #MichelFano #TahsinKavalcioglu #MauriceBarry #ExperimentalFilm #drama #mystery #France #Italy #Turkey #film #cinemastodon #1960s ★★★★★
La Maison de rendez-vous is a 1965 novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet. One of my favourite film directors and it turns out that his novels are just as good, with the same mix of eroticism, mystery and surrealism. There are no concessions to realism.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/01/alain-robbe-grillets-la-maison-de.html
#SaraZeitgeist Progress Update Number 5 — Finished! 
Cyrielle Clair as 'Sara Zeitgeist' in "La Belle Captive" (1983). Colored pencil on Bristol board 42 cm x 26.5 cm
LA BELLE CAPTIVE makes me wonder why this is only the second Alain Robbe-Grillet film I have ever seen. Stunning looking and wonderfully surreal. Just right up my alley
What are your picks as the most visually stunning movies ever made? My totally personal list:
Faust 1926
The Scarlet Empress 1934
He Walked by Night 1948
Black Narcissus 1947
Kwaidan 1964
A Clockwork Orange 1971
Lisa and the Devil 1974
Barry Lyndon 1975
Suspiria 1977
La Belle Captive 1983
La belle captive (1983) - Alain Robbe-Grillet
#nouveauroman #AlainRobbeGrillet #frenchcinema
Trans-Europ-Express (1966), a movie by Alain Robbe-Grillet called Trans-Europ-Express about a writer-director played by Alain Robbe-Grillet planning a movie called Trans-Europ-Express. Yes, it’s all very postmodern.
It's a wonderfully playful and enticing mixture of thriller, fun and artiness (yes such a combination was possible in those happier days).
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2020/06/robbe-grillets-trans-europ-express-1966.html
Alain Robbe-Grillet’s 1983 film La Belle Captive was inspired by the works of the great surrealist painter René Magritte. From the very first we know we’re in surrealist territory.
Everything about the movie is consciously artificial. Which leads us to wonder if any of it is real, or perhaps to wonder what reality even means.
Visually stunning, erotic and witty.
My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2020/05/la-belle-captive-1983-blu-ray-review.html
4 surrealist or otherwise weird movies to get to know me.
Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Alain Robbe-Grillet's La Belle Captive (1983)
Jean Rollin's The Iron Rose (1973)
Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour (1967)
#bookstodon seven authors:
#jamesjoyce
#jorgeluisborges
#carmenmariamachado
#ItaloCalvino
#fyodordostoevsky
#helenoyeyemi
#alainrobbegrillet
Could add at least seven more easily (eg #NadiaBulkin), but let’s start with that.
