Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974)

Review: Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974)

Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet

Cast: Anicée Alvina, Olga Georges-Picot, Michael Lonsdale, Marianne Eggerickx, Isabelle Huppert,

Anicée Alvina
Anicée Alvina
Olga Georges-Picot
Olga Georges-Picot
Michael Lonsdale
Michael Lonsdale
Marianne Eggerickx
Marianne Eggerickx
Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Huppert

Plot: A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does have powers, to make all people around her fall prey to her spell, glissing progressively into desire, lust, and the unknown.

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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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