Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet was a French writer and filmmaker. He was, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon, one of the figures most associated with the Nouveau Roman (new novel) trend. Alain Robbe-Grillet was elected a member of the Académie française on March 25, 2004, succeeding Maurice Rheims at seat No. 32. He was married to Catherine Robbe-Grillet (née Rstakian). Robbe-Grillet's career as a creator of fiction was not restricted to the writing of novels. For him, creating fiction in the form of films was of equal importance. His film career began when Alain Resnais chose to collaborate with him on his 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad. The film was nominated for the 1963 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay and won the Golden Lion when it came out in 1961. In the credits it was presented as a film equally co-authored by Alain Robbe-Grillet and Alain Resnais. Robbe-Grillet then went on to launch a career as a writer-director of a series of cerebral and often sexually provocative feature films which explored similar themes to those in his literary work (e.g. Voyeurism, The Body as Text, The 'Double'). He commenced with L'Immortelle (The Immortal One) (1962) which won the much-coveted Louis Delluc Prize of 1962. This was followed by his most commercially successful film after Last Year at Marienbad: Trans-Europ-Express (1966) starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, who continued to work with Robbe-Grillet on his next four films: his French-Slovak film L'homme qui ment/Muž, ktorý luže (The Man Who Lies) (1968), L'Eden et après/Eden a potom (Eden and After) (1970), Glissements progressifs du plaisir (Progressive Slidings towards Pleasure) (1974) and Le jeu avec le feu (Playing with Fire) (1975). It was almost a decade before the appearance of his next feature film, La belle captive (The Beautiful Captive) (1983), but Alain Robbe-Grillet was fortunate enough to enlist the services of Henri Alekan as cinematographer, the visionary master of cinematography for the films of Jean Cocteau. Subsequently more than a decade passed before Alain Robbe-Grillet got behind the lens again, this time filming a mystery thriller on a small Greek island with Fred Ward starring as the confused Frank in Un bruit qui rend fou. Robbe-Grillet (A Maddening Noise, aka: The Blue Villa) (1995). Before his death in 2008 Robbe-Grillet was to direct one more film, Gradiva (C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle) (2006) which brought once more to the fore his preoccupation with sadism and bondage in his fiction. Perhaps the best introduction to the film works of Alain Robbe-Grillet is the volume The Erotic Dream Machine by Professors Roch C.Smith and Anthony N. Fragola. Also of great value is the volume In the Temple of Dreams: The Writer on the Screen in which Robbe-Grillet himself explains the relationship between his literary fiction and his cinematic fiction (ed. Edouard d'Araille, 1996).

  • Title: Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • Popularity: 2.121
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1922-08-18
  • Place of Birth: Brest, Finistère, France
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Alain Robbe-Grillet Movies

  • 1969
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    Alain Robbe-Grillet

    Alain Robbe-Grillet

    1 1969 HD

    A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critics Noël Burch and André S. Labarthe,...

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  • 1966
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    Trans-Europ-Express

    Trans-Europ-Express

    6.8 1966 HD

    A movie producer, director and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp. They get the idea for a movie about a drug smuggler on...

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  • 1974
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    Successive Slidings of Pleasure

    Successive Slidings of Pleasure

    6.2 1974 HD

    A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead,...

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  • 1999
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    Time Regained

    Time Regained

    6.2 1999 HD

    In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have...

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  • 1984
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    Un film (autoportrait)

    Un film (autoportrait)

    7 1984 HD

    The shooting diary of a film shot in France and in the United States. Using photos of Paris and of New York City, excerpts of his former films,...

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  • 2015
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    The Ceremony

    The Ceremony

    5.1 2015 HD

    In an extravagant house in Paris, people gather for sexual ceremonies in luxurious environments. The 83-year-old author, Catherine Robbe-Grillet is...

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  • 1995
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    Dear Antonioni

    Dear Antonioni

    1 1995 HD

    A documentary portrait of Michangelo Antonioni based on Roland Barthes' essay.

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  • 2003
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    The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

    The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

    1 2003 HD

    A documentary about the film, I am Curious-Yellow (1967), and how it made it into the USA and changed film in USA forever by breaking the USA...

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  • 1961
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    Last Year at Marienbad

    Last Year at Marienbad

    7.411 1961 HD

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  • 2007
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    It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You

    It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You

    6.1 2007 HD

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  • 2007
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    It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You

    It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You

    6.1 2007 HD

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  • 1968
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    The Man Who Lies

    The Man Who Lies

    6.7 1968 HD

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  • 1975
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    Playing with Fire

    Playing with Fire

    5.6 1975 HD

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  • 1975
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    Playing with Fire

    Playing with Fire

    5.6 1975 HD

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  • 1972
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    N. Took the Dice

    N. Took the Dice

    5.5 1972 HD

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  • 1972
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    N. Took the Dice

    N. Took the Dice

    5.5 1972 HD

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  • 1966
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    Trans-Europ-Express

    Trans-Europ-Express

    6.8 1966 HD

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  • 1970
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    Eden and After

    Eden and After

    6.1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Eden and After

    Eden and After

    6.1 1970 HD

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  • 1983
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    The Beautiful Prisoner

    The Beautiful Prisoner

    6.3 1983 HD

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  • 1983
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    The Beautiful Prisoner

    The Beautiful Prisoner

    6.3 1983 HD

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  • 1974
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    Successive Slidings of Pleasure

    Successive Slidings of Pleasure

    6.2 1974 HD

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  • 1974
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    Successive Slidings of Pleasure

    Successive Slidings of Pleasure

    6.2 1974 HD

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  • 1963
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    L'Immortelle

    L'Immortelle

    6.9 1963 HD

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  • 1995
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    The Blue Villa

    The Blue Villa

    4.8 1995 HD

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  • 1966
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    Trans-Europ-Express

    Trans-Europ-Express

    6.8 1966 HD

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  • 2021
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    La Japonaise, film-fantôme d’Alain Robbe-Grillet

    La Japonaise, film-fantôme d’Alain Robbe-Grillet

    1 2021 HD

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  • 1996
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    Taxandria

    Taxandria

    5.9 1996 HD

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  • 1968
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    The Man Who Lies

    The Man Who Lies

    6.7 1968 HD

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  • 1963
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    L'Immortelle

    L'Immortelle

    6.9 1963 HD

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  • 1995
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    The Blue Villa

    The Blue Villa

    4.8 1995 HD

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  • 1978
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    Civil Wars in France

    Civil Wars in France

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1969
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    The Erasers

    The Erasers

    1 1969 HD

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  • 2018
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    Jealousy

    Jealousy

    4 2018 HD

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  • 1956
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    Cinépanorama

    Cinépanorama

    8 1956 HD

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  • 1975
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    8.5 1975 HD

    Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...

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