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. [show more]
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Alain Robbe-Grillet directs this surrealist French drama. Daniel Mesguich stars as Walter, who is attracted to the beautiful Marie-Ange (Gabrielle Lazure) when he sees her at a nightclub - and later finds her lying bound and injured in the road. He takes her to a nearby villa where he ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. When he wakes up after night of passion, Walter finds that the woman has disappeared, the villa is a deserted ruin and he is covered in blood. Did the events he remembers really happen, or is it all just some kind of bizarre nightmare?
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