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L'immortelle (1963)
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Alain Robbe-Grillet (writer)
Release Date:
27 March 1963 (France)
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A sad man meets a beautiful, secretive woman who may or may not be involved in some conspiracy ring dealing in kidnapped women used as prostitutes...
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Mystery Woman
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Driving
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Istanbul
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Obsession
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Avant Garde
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THE IMMORTAL ONE (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1963) **
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Françoise Brion | ... | L, the Woman | |
| Jacques Doniol-Valcroze | ... | N, The Man | |
| Guido Celano | ... | M, the Stranger | |
| Sezer Sezin | ... | Turkish Woman | |
| Ulvi Uraz | ... | Antique Dealer | |
| Belkis Mutlu | ... | Servant | |
| Catherine Blisson | |||
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| Catherine Robbe-Grillet | (as Catherine Carayon) | ||
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L'immortale (Italy)
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Featured in "Fejezetek a film történetéböl: A francia új hullám (#1.14)" (1990)
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While the print of this one was more pleasing than the other Robbe-Grillet titles I watched to commemorate his recent passing, the viewing itself was marred by a couple of instances of temporary freezing. The film, then, was perhaps the most pretentious and, well, tedious of the lot – given that there’s hardly any discernible plot!
Again, we’re thrown into a remote Arabian locale (complete with relentless – and, consequently, extremely irritating – religious chanting) with, at its centre, a glamorous yet vapid femme fatale in Francoise Brion – to whom the title is presumably referring. Frankly, I’m at pains to recall just what went on in the film – even if only a little over 36 hours have elapsed since then…which is never a good thing but, usually, this is a predicament I find myself in after having watched some mindless/low-brow action flick and not a respected art-house one! What’s certain is that, as a film about the search for a missing enigmatic girl, it’s far less compelling and satisfying than Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’AVVENTURA (1960)! Incidentally, the bewildered hero of THE IMMORTAL ONE is played by Jacques Doniol-Valcroze – who happens to be a film-maker in his own right, actually one of the lesser (and, therefore, least-known) exponents of the “Nouvelle Vague”.
Though I have to admit that – in the long run – I was disappointed by the mini-marathon dedicated to this influential novelist and highbrow film-maker, I’d still be interested in checking out the other efforts he directed (not to mention hope to catch these three again in better representations and, perhaps, a more amenable frame-of-mind). In any case, I still have Alain Resnais’ demanding but highly-acclaimed LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD (1961) – which Robbe-Grillet wrote, and for which he even garnered an Oscar nomination – to re-acquaint myself with, and that is sure to be an infinitely more rewarding experience...