More good nudity and incoherent avant-garde gibberish from Alain Robbe-Grillet.
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 eyeing 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?
There is a character named Sarah Zeitgeist, one named The Hysterical Woman, and another named The Cyclist. I didn’t see a mime, but there has to be one in there somewhere, as required by the Napoleonic Code. My ancient Babylonian is a little rusty, but I think it was first set into law as the long-forgotten Law 283 by the Code of Hammurabi. It’s hard to read. Most people think there were only 282 laws, but that’s because some of the text chipped off the stele over the millennia.
I do know Hammurabi was a huge mime fan. Many say he went to war with Ishme-Dagan of Assyria because of Ishy’s insistence on speech from all entertainers.
More of Defoe’s caps and clips: Christine Boisson’s full-frontal nudity from another Robbe-Grillet film, Le Jeu Avec Le Feu (1975)






