The Beautiful Prisoner (1983) AKA La Belle Captive 1080p BluRay x...

NOTE: There is a glitch in the video at 00:45:21. It's also in the source remux but this was the only source I could find for this film so I opted to use it. The glitch threw the audio out of sync for the rest of the film but I did some re-timing work and it should be okay now. Also the main audio is labelled as Latin instead of French, sorry about that too, I forgot to change it for the final version.

La Belle Captive is a mesmerizing erotic fantasy, set in a world in which film noir and horror converge—an alternate reality governed by the fractured continuity of a nightmare. After encountering a mysterious woman at a smoke-filled nightclub, secret agent Walter Raim finds the woman lying bound and semi-conscious on a country road. He takes her to an isolated mansion, where a group of mysterious men have gathered. In the morning, Walter awakens to find bite marks on his neck, and embarks on a one-man crusade to unravel the mystery.

Inspired by the imagery of René Magritte and the episodic melodramas of Louis Feuillade, La Belle Captive is a playful homage to the erotic allure of cinema, filled with fetishistic imagery that has become Robbe-Grillet’s trademark.


This film is a part of my Alain Robbe-Grillet collection, which includes:

The Immortal One / L'Immortelle
Trans-Europ-Express
The Man Who Lies / L'Homme qui ment
Eden and After / L'Eden et après
N. Took the Dice / N. a pris les dés...
Successive Slidings of Pleasure / Glissements progressifs du plaisir
Playing with Fire / Le Jeu avec le feu
The Beautiful Prisoner / La Belle Captive