The Musketeer is director-cinematographer Peter Hyams fresh new take on Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure tale, The Three Musketeers.
Presented for the first time in a newly restored version remastered from the original 35mm negative Alain Robbe-Grillet's erotic surreal classic is a precursor to David Lynch's world of enigmatic characters and dreamlike encounters. A man called Walter encounters a beautiful woman at a club then later finds her lying bound and bloodied in the road. He takes her to a nearby isolated villa where a sinister group of wealthy men in tuxedos are gathered and take a keen interest in the injured woman. The couple are given a room for the night where they are locked in. They make love but the following morning Walter wakes to find the woman gone the a villa a deserted ruin and blood on his neck. Did it happen or was it a dream? Nothing is quite what it seems.
A young woman (Isabelle Adjani) in Paris in the 1920s is left penniless and without means of support. A rather strange English couple (Maggie Smith Alan Bates) offer her refuge but at the price of seduction by the husband...
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