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The Beautiful Prisoner

The Beautiful Prisoner

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 16, 1983

Runtime

1h 28m

Genres

Mystery, Drama

User Score

63%

Original Title

La Belle Captive

Production Companies

Argos Films, France 3

Director

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Description

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?