Alain Robbe-Grillet
1) Repetition
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"It is 1949. A special agent of the French secret service, Henri Robin, is aboard a train to Berlin, on a special mission of an undisclosed nature. In what could be Graham Greene's The Third Man or a Hitchcock film, he crosses national borders and shuffles aliases with a false mustache and multiple sets of identity papers. Pulling into the station and preparing to meet his contact, Robin is alarmed by a disturbing glimpse of his own doppelganger....
Series
Criterion collection volume 478
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
X attempts to convince A that they met last year in this same hotel (or maybe it was in a different one). They loved each other, emotionally and physically. She agrees to elope with him and get away from M, her husband (or lover). At the last moment, she refuses (for whatever reason) and asked for a one year postponement. Now, the year has passed and X has come to their agreed rendezvous to take her away. A claims she does not recognize X and does...
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
"Alain Robbe-Grillet's erotically-charged film portrays a man's obsession with a mysterious woman who steps out of his fantasies. Walter becomes fascinated with Marie-Ange after seeing her in a nightclub. One evening, he finds her bound in the middle of the road. After a surreal night of passion, he awakens the next morning to wonder if it all was just a dream."--Container.