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La Prisonnière

Original title: La prisonnière
  • 19681968
  • RR
  • 1h 46m
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7.1/10
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La Prisonnière (1968)
Drama
Stanislas Hassler blazes the development of modern art in his gallery, packed with works of surprising shapes, colours and textures, and where exhibitions turn into media events. Gilbert Mor... Read allStanislas Hassler blazes the development of modern art in his gallery, packed with works of surprising shapes, colours and textures, and where exhibitions turn into media events. Gilbert Moreau is one of the artists whose sculptures are on display in the gallery. His wife, Josée,... Read allStanislas Hassler blazes the development of modern art in his gallery, packed with works of surprising shapes, colours and textures, and where exhibitions turn into media events. Gilbert Moreau is one of the artists whose sculptures are on display in the gallery. His wife, Josée, is intrigued by the stern Stanislas, who devotes his free time to photography in an apart... Read all
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    • Henri-Georges Clouzot
    • Henri-Georges Clouzot(scenario, adaptation and dialogue)
    • Monique Lange(scenario collaborator)
    • Marcel Moussy(scenario collaborator)
  • Stars
    • Laurent Terzieff
    • Elisabeth Wiener
    • Bernard Fresson
    • Henri-Georges Clouzot
    • Henri-Georges Clouzot(scenario, adaptation and dialogue)
    • Monique Lange(scenario collaborator)
    • Marcel Moussy(scenario collaborator)
  • Stars
    • Laurent Terzieff
    • Elisabeth Wiener
    • Bernard Fresson
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    • 14User reviews
    • 18Critic reviews
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    Laurent Terzieff
    Laurent Terzieff
    • Stanislas Hassler
    Elisabeth Wiener
    Elisabeth Wiener
    • Josée
    Bernard Fresson
    Bernard Fresson
    • Gilbert Moreau
    Dany Carrel
    Dany Carrel
    • Maguy
    Michel Etcheverry
    • Le chirurgien
    Claude Piéplu
    Claude Piéplu
    • Le père de Josée
    Noëlle Adam
    Noëlle Adam
    • La mère de Josée
    Daniel Rivière
    • Maurice
    Annie Fargue
    Germaine Delbat
    • La gérante
    Gilberte Géniat
    Gilberte Géniat
    • La patronne de l'auberge
    Darío Moreno
    Darío Moreno
    • Sala
    Béatrice Altariba
    Béatrice Altariba
    • Une invitée au vernissage
    • (uncredited)
    Jacques Ciron
    • Le spécialiste au vernissage
    • (uncredited)
    René Floriot
    • Un invité au vernissage
    • (uncredited)
    Henri Garcin
    • Le journaliste au vernissage
    • (uncredited)
    Jean Gold
    • Un invité au vernissage
    • (uncredited)
    André Luguet
    André Luguet
    • L'invité au vernissage qui dit 'C'est simple, mais ça existe!'
    • (uncredited)
      • Henri-Georges Clouzot
      • Henri-Georges Clouzot(scenario, adaptation and dialogue)
      • Monique Lange(scenario collaborator)
      • Marcel Moussy(scenario collaborator)
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    • Trivia
      Henri-Georges Clouzot's final film.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Le Pont du Nord (1981)
    • Soundtracks
      Mouvement pour Quatuor
      Music by Gilbert Amy

      Conducted by Gilbert Amy

    User reviews14

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    5/10
    Fails to deliver on its unoriginal promise
    Saw this 10/11/15. Clouzot knew the game had changed considerably since his last completed film in 1960. His "La Prisonnière" represents an attempt to join the crowd. Unfortunately, the movie accomplishes little else beyond offering some very interesting photography bringing to mind other nearby films such as "Belle de Jour" (1967), "Two or Three Things I Know About Her" (1967) or "Blow-up" (1966). "La Prisionniere" looks as if the DP presented interesting visual ideas for Clouzot to work into a movie, somehow. I think a stronger movie would have had it the other way around.

    Laurent Terzieff as Stan was apparently stuck with the role of the movie's go-to guy for inchoate forays into masochism and mild lesbianism. Elisabeth Wiener tries her best as his sub rosa subject, and Bernard Fresson is the mercenary, arty, and ultimately, chumpy husband.

    For a director with Clouzot's reputation for cruelty to actors, the movie's theme of dominance and submission is disturbing but unsurprising. Where everyone else seemed to sense freedom in the 60's, Clouzot seems to have believed there was interesting darkness on the flip side.

    Maybe he was not entirely wrong, but a film so conceived was not this one. Nothing is developed to the extent promised or necessary. The able cast cannot deliver more of a movie than Clouzot had designed. The dream sequence is little more than a post production doodle whose visual effects, unable to carry Clouzot's stillborn thematic material, merely look dated. Corman's 1967 "The Trip" played a similar game with greater success. The American's more modest goal of selling tickets seems to have had a better result than the aging French master's muddled quest for great cinema.
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    • Oct 12, 2015

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    • Release date
      • November 20, 1968 (France)
      • France
      • Italy
      • French
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    • Filming locations
      • Lagny-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, France
    • Production companies
      • Les Films Corona
      • Fono Roma
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    • 1 hour 46 minutes
      • Mono

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