sunday french classics
robbe-grillet tribute

France | 1968 | b&w | 116 mins | dir. Alain Robbe-Grillet, with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ivan Mistrik, Sylvie Bréal, Sylvia Turbova

Stranger Boris turns up in a remote Czech village, claiming to be someone who left many years ago, a friend of a Resistance fighter who was shot in the war. As inconsistencies in his story start to stack up, local residents become suspicious... Of this character Robbe-Grillet says: 'Boris is someone in the act of creating himself... Boris does not lie, he speaks. He is the modern hero who has chosen his words at the guarantee of his own reality.' Winner of the Best Actor (Trintignant) and Best Screenplay awards at the 1968 Berlin Film Festival.

Sun 23 sept | 2.00pm | cert. 18 | new print