La belle captive

Feb 16 1983 Not Rated 1h 30m
Drama, Fantasy, Horror

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?

Plot

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?

Written by

Alain Robbe-Grillet, Frank Verpillat

Directed by

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Production Countries

France

Production Companies

Argos Films, France 3

Languages

Français

Awards

2 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
1,546
Average Rating
6.3 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA