The Beautiful Prisoner

The Beautiful Prisoner

1983 · 88 min · FR · 6.4 (34 votes)
Dir. Alain Robbe-Grillet · Starring Daniel Mesguich, Gabrielle Lazure, Cyrielle Clair, Daniel Emilfork, Roland Dubillard, François Chaumette
DramaFantasyMystery

Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte's paintings. In the morning, the girl, Marie-Ange, has vanished, the villa looks derelict, and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a nightmare?

VIBE

A disorienting descent into dream logic where desire blurs with surrealist imagery. It feels like stepping into a Magritte painting, leaving you questioning reality and the nature of your own subconscious desires. Erotic, enigmatic, and utterly strange.

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