Directed by
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Dimitri de Clercq
Genre: Avant-garde / Experimental
Also Known As:
The Blue Villa
Runtime: 100 min
Country: France / Belgium / Switzerland
Language: French
Color: Color
Sound Mix: Dolby SR
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114774/
User Comments: Late Robbe-Grillet masterpiece!!!
The Moebius-stripping of MARIENBAD et al in a frame of the purest sensuousness--mind-bending, ravishing, a unicorn miraculously manifested from a lost era of cinema. Thanks for making it come to pass, Fred Ward.
The complexly interwoven lives of the residents of an isolated Greek island form the basis of this psycho-sexual drama from iconoclastic film-maker Alain Robbe-Grillet. Living on the island are a few native Greeks, several Chinese, who spend their days playing mah-jongg, Nordmann, a boozy screenwriter, and seductive Sarah la-Blonde, the madam at the Blue Villa, the town whorehouse, in which Sarah hides Santa, alias Lotus Blossom. Sarah is teaching Santa to sing an aria from Wagner. One day, Frank, who could be a ghost, arrives on the island. At first he never speaks and appears to be looking for something or someone. It is later learned that he was involved in the supposed death of Santa, who just might be Nordmann's daughter. It is up to the local police chief, Thieu, to figure out what parts of the story are true and what parts are fiction. — Sandra Brennan
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