The Beautiful Prisoner (1983)
La Belle Captive
Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte's paintings. In the morning, the girl, Marie-Ange, has vanished, the villa looks derelict, and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a nightmare?
- Date of release
- 1983-02-16
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (50)
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
- Director
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
Casting
- Daniel Mesguich — Walter Raim
- Gabrielle Lazure — Marie-Ange van de Reeves
- Cyrielle Clair — Sara Zeitgeist
- Daniel Emilfork — Inspector Francis
- Roland Dubillard — Prof van de Reeves
- François Chaumette — Dr. Morgentodt
- Arielle Dombasle — The hysterical woman
- Gilles Arbona — Le barman
- Jean-Claude Leguay — Le cycliste
- Nancy van Slyke — La serveuse
- Denis Fouqueray — Le valet
- Michel Auclair — La voix de Walter (voice)
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