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Le jeu avec le feu (1975)
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Alain Robbe-Grillet (written by)
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19 June 1975 (Netherlands)
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Art or Porn...Or Does It Matter?
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jean-Louis Trintignant | ... | Franz / Francis | |
| Philippe Noiret | ... | Georges de Saxe / Ses doubles | |
| Anicée Alvina | ... | Carolina de Saxe | |
| Sylvia Kristel | ... | Diana Van Den Berg | |
| Agostina Belli | ... | Maria, la servande des Saxe | |
| Serge Marquand | ... | Mathias | |
| Charles Millot | ... | Un ravisseur | |
| Vernon Dobtcheff | ... | Un messager | |
| Jacques Seiler | ... | Le chauffeur de taxi / Le domestique d'Erica / Le prêtre | |
| Michel Berto | ... | L'adjoint du commissaire | |
| Christine Boisson | ... | Christina, la fille dans la malle / Desdémone | |
| Marc Mazza | ... | Un messager | |
| Jacques Doniol-Valcroze | ... | Le commissaire Laurent (as J. Doniol-Valcloze) | |
| Nathalie Zeiger | ... | Tania, la fille aux chiens | |
| Joëlle Coeur | ... | La mariée |
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France:112 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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Il Trovatore
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A series of elegantly kinky erotic tableaux, strung together by a mock-thriller plot, this may be Alain Robbe-Grillet's most linear and accessible film. Mind you, an 'accessible' Robbe-Grillet is like a 'good' Ben Affleck movie. Strictly a relative term, and allowances have to be made.
The plot (as far as I can discern one) has Philippe Noiret as a corrupt tycoon teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Desperate to raise a few francs, he decides to fake the kidnapping of his own daughter (Anicee Alvina) and pocket the ransom. He locks the girl up for safe-keeping in a deluxe Art Nouveau brothel, where he himself is a regular client.
In real life, this 'brothel' is the interior of the Palais Garnier - for years the theatre of the Paris Opera. This may be symbolic in some highly obscure way; offscreen voices keep warbling snatches of Il Trovatore. The randy Robbe-Grillet, meanwhile, indulges in all his usual fetishes: torture, lesbianism, necrophilia... One young lady has a 'close personal friendship' with a mastiff hound.
Participating in the fun and games are a young and exceptionally lovely Sylvia Kristel and French soft-porno legend Joelle Coeur. The images are so glacially beautiful, they look like a Helmut Newton photo album sprung to life. Yet are we to take this as a serious avant-garde experiment in the style of Alain Resnais? Or is it just a slice of arty smut? Robbe-Grillet himself seems not to know the answer. Or if he does, he's keeping it well-hidden.