Glissements progressifs du plaisir (1974) opens with a police lieutenant (Jean-Louis Trintignant) arriving at a crime scene to interview a young woman (Anicée Alvina) suspected of murder. When the policeman… Read more »
Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Trans-Europ-Express (1966) applies the filmmaker’s Nouveau roman formal experiments onto the crime film as a means of parodying the genre as well as the filmmaking process itself. Of… Read more »
L’Eden et après (1970) is the first of two films Alain Robbe-Grillet made from the same footage; the other being N. Took The Dice (1971). Both films tell the same… Read more »
French Spiritualist philosopher Henri Bergson outlined two types of human memory. The first is Motor Mechanism, when a person purposefully memorizes a text or moment. The second is involuntary memory,… Read more »
