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His last year at Marienbad

Alain Robbe-Grillet: 1922–2008
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 26, 2008
3.5 3.5 Stars

The film, then, is a Rorschach test that reveals more about the interpreter than about itself. What does it say about Robbe-Grillet, now gone to the great M in the sky? His forbidding, cryptic façade notwithstanding, I’ll wager he was just another romantic softie. In subsequent films, such as his best, La belle captive (1983), and his last, Gradiva (2006), he pursued with increasing debauchery and desperation the same theme of unattainable love. It was his story and he was sticking with it, even though in the end it didn’t earn him an alibi from death.

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His last year at Marienbad
Hey Peter, I lost your email (we know each other, in a sui generis way) :) I'm really looking forward to seeing this and I'm a big supporter of the Brattle. One excellent way to help the Brattle is with goodsearch (money is raised just by searching the internet). Ad revenue from the searches are split with the charity and the more people who use it to search the more money is generated. I could use your help in spreading the word about this! (and I apologize for the other things too). http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=812588
By Matt_H on 02/29/2008 at 12:04:32

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