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Writers:
Henri-Georges Clouzot (scenario, adaptation and dialogue)
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20 November 1968 (France) more
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Stanislas Hassler blazes the development of modern art in his gallery, packed with works of surprising shapes... more | add synopsis
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Psychedelic Head Games - Magnifique! more (4 total)

Cast

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Laurent Terzieff ... Stanislas Hassler
Elisabeth Wiener ... Josée
Bernard Fresson ... Gilbert Moreau
Dany Carrel ... Maguy
Michel Etcheverry ... Le chirurgien
Claude Piéplu ... Le père de Josée
Noëlle Adam ... La mère de Josée
Daniel Rivière ... Maurice
Annie Fargue
Germaine Delbat ... La gérante
Gilberte Géniat ... La patronne de l'auberge
Darío Moreno ... Sala
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Also Known As:
Female Prisoner
La prigioniera (Italy)
Woman in Chains (USA)
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106 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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Psychedelic Head Games - Magnifique!, 28 August 2003
Author: david melville (dwingrove@qmuc.ac.uk) from Edinburgh, Scotland

Opening with the most eerie and perverse credit sequence you are ever likely to see, HG Clouzot's final film veers from claustrophobic mind games to swooning romance to 60s Pop Art psychedelia - without ever once losing the iron grip that was its director's trademark. It's Clouzot, and not the prolific but overrated Claude Chabrol, who deserves to be called 'the French Hitchcock.' Yet Clouzot, uninhibited by the demands of Hollywood 'box office,' was able to plumb depths of misanthropy and depravity that Hitch could scarcely dream of.

In La Prisonniere, he achieves the complete emotional and moral annihilation of all three protagonists. A young wife (Elisabeth Wiener) grows bored with her philandering artist husband (Bernard Fresson) and falls under the spell of a voyeuristic gallery owner (Laurent Terzieff) - who dabbles in kinky S&M photos on the side. If that sounds like a recipe for disaster...well, it is - but never quite in the ways we predict. The flamboyantly deranged Terzieff may, in fact, be the sanest character in this twisted triangle. So how crazy are the heroine and her hubby...?

Suffice it to say that, having produced an erotic and psychological thriller that outclasses any of Chabrol's more famous efforts of the late 60s, Clouzot then enters the tormented mind of his heroine - in a psychedelic 'head trip' to rival Kubrick's finale to 2001. A pity that Elisabeth Wiener (a forgotten 60s beauty in the style of Charlotte Rampling or Marianne Faithfull) never quite suggests the depths of anguish her role demands. Still, the magnificent Terzieff supplies angst enough for the whole cast. And he's not even the mad one...

David Melville

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