Thanks to some oddly unbidden aggregate restoration-licensing phenomenon, we are suddenly awash with the cinema of noveau roman pioneer–slash–Bdsm obsessive Alain Robbe-Grillet. Famous here only for self-autopsying novels like Les Gommes, The Voyeur, In the Labyrinth, and Project for a Revolution in New York, and for the radically unsignifying screenplay for Alain Resnais’s Last Year at Marienbad, Robbe-Grillet was also a late-coming adjunct to the French New Wave, doubling down on his avant-garde literary fame and making a series of psychosexually nutty meta-movies that eat their own tails so lustily they make Godard’s contemporaneous work look orthodox. Almost. Robbe-Grillet, whose first six films are now...
- 9/24/2014
- Village Voice
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