The Man Who Lies (1968)

Review: The Man Who Lies (1968)

Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet

Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Sylvie Bréal, Zuzana Kocúriková, Dominique Prado, Catherine Robbe-Grillet,

Jean-Louis Trintignant
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Sylvie Bréal
Sylvie Bréal
Zuzana Kocúriková
Zuzana Kocúriková
Dominique Prado
Dominique Prado
Catherine Robbe-Grillet
Catherine Robbe-Grillet

Plot: A man may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter during World War II. He has supposedly been shot down by the Nazis and wanders into town. Mourning the death of an unseen comrade, he is taken in by the family of the dead rebel. He engages in a superfluous affair and witnesses the lesbian relationship between the man's sister and a female servant. When passions subside, the family has doubts about the reliability of the man's story.

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The cinema of Alain Robbe-Grillet

The cinema of Alain Robbe-Grillet

In their Blu-ray set of Alain Robbe-Grillet’s first six features, the BFI provide a superb introduction to novelist and filmmaker’s radical and frequently controversial work which combines high art with lowly genre tropes in […]

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