N. Took the Dice (1971)

Review: N. Took the Dice (1971)

Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet

Cast: Sylvain Corthay, Catherine Jourdan, Richard Leduc, Lorraine Rainer, Pierre Zimmer,

Sylvain Corthay
Sylvain Corthay
Catherine Jourdan
Catherine Jourdan
Richard Leduc
Richard Leduc
Lorraine Rainer
Lorraine Rainer
Pierre Zimmer
Pierre Zimmer

Plot: N Took the Dice is essentially a reworking of Eden and After made possible by the roll of a dice (scenes from the 1970 film were combined with outtakes and additional footage in an aleatory way). Robbe-Grillet was always interested in music and since he perceived Eden and After to be serial in nature, it only made sense that its sister film would stand in opposition to that.

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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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