A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does have powers, to make all people around her fall prey to her spell, glissing progressively into desire, lust, and the unknown.

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Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974) is an artistic storytelling device that shows how witches were persecuted by the church. Robbe-Grillet was nearing the height of his cinematic powers after writing and directing L’Immortelle (1963), Trans-Europ-Express (1966), and Eden and After (1970). Moreover, his numerous novels and filmmaking experience had given him a chance to establish a style and maintain it like a true auteur. Successive Slidings of Pleasure shows witches supernatural abilities by showing repetitive cinematographic shots, sounds of broken glass, whipped women, investigators opening and closing doors numerous times to no avail.

As a the film progresses the feminine beauty of Anicée Alvina (Alice) is too much for men and women. She is a vessel of supernatural powers and is in tune with the cycles of life and death. She is art and art is her as she reenacts a crime, acts as a sex worker, and is beaten by fellow nuns in another dimensions and/or past lives. Alain Robbe-Grillet’s obsession with fetishes including, rope, high heel sling back shoes, blood, vampires, broken glass, whips, doors, windows, and ancient buildings with dungeons is put on display without restraint. Robbe-Grillet was a fierce writer and never compromised his vision of art nor his film making. It is easy to see how Lynch, Anderson, and possibly Verhoeven was inspired by him. Successive Slidings of Pleasure is not for everyone but it is a high brow film that leading up to Playing With Fire (1975). Robbe-Grillet played with fire but was not burned.

	
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Philippe Noiret plays a rich, Parisian banker whose daughter, Carolina, is kidnapped by a ruthless organization. They threaten to have her abused by the sadistic clients of a brothel they run if Father doesn’t pay the ransom on time.

+Commentary by novelist and film historian Tim Lucas

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Synopsis:
A sad man meets a beautiful, secretive woman who may or may not be involved in some conspiracy ring dealing in kidnapped women used as prostitutes. After several days of their sadly passionate relationship she disappears. The sad man is unable to locate her as all the local Turkish people pretend not to remember any such woman. He suddenly finds her again (she finds him?) and before she can explain her disappearance she is killed in a car crash while he is in the passenger seat. He replays the accident over and over in his mind trying to remember how she died if he caused the accident himself by grabbing the wheel.

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When you think of art house directors you probably think of some of the more famous filmmakers like Werner Herzog (Aguirre, the Wrath of God), Peter Greenaway (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover) or Alejandro Jodorowsky (Holy Mountain). Someone you may not know is French writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet. Robbe-Grillet was part of the “nouveau roman” novelist movement which diverted from the classical style of writing and deviated from the norm with experimental prose. The same could be said with his film Glissements progressifs du plaisir (literal translation is “Gradual shifts of pleasure”) aka Successive Slidings of Pleasure where he blends dreamlike visuals with eroticism and, oddly, nunsploitation.

The narrative follows a young woman after she is arrested and locked in a convent for murdering her female roommate and lover; she insists she is innocent. She blames the violent scissor stabbing on a black-gloved man (a nod to giallo maybe?) who somehow entered their apartment without their knowing. While she is imprisoned for the killing (and possibly being a witch!) and awaiting her trial, she is visited by and questioned by many people; the judge, a young nun, a priest, her attorney, et al… all of whom she sexually manipulates in what seems to be a game to her. She is mistreated, tortured and raped by her religious captures, or is she? Everything she says seems to be a lie to play the game which she seems to think she can win just by using her feminine whiles. It isn’t until the ironic ending that we see that sex can’t get you out of everything.

Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Successive Slidings of Pleasure is full of deep meaning, artistic symbolism and a little out of the blue silly humor. Oh, it is also jam-packed with nudity. Lots and lots of nudity, most of which is the nubile, raven-haired French honey Anicée Alvina. She is a young, European version of Liv Tyler; gorgeous face, full lips and a cute little crooked mouth. On top of that, she is a fantastic actress who plays the broken little hyper-sexual young woman to a tee. As I mentioned in the opening, the movie isn’t just art house poetry, it delves into the nunsploitation arena with some pretty sleazy scenes of dark, dank dungeons used to “punish” the bad little prisoner girls with whips, chains and a little hanky-panky with Sister Sexy-pants. The pace is deliberately slow as it methodically shows lots of bizarre imagery to create an atmosphere and dictate symbolism.

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Plot summary
A sailor who was accused of killing a teenage girl and who was presumed to have drowned while making his escape, returns to the Mediterranean island where the alleged crime took place. But all is not what it appears. Robbe-Grillet keeps us guessing as to whether the murder actually took place and teases the viewer with the possibility that the sailor may be a restless spirit or a figment of the imagination conjured up by the victim’s father to assuage his own guilt. Too many questions and not enough answers make for a very frustrating investigation.

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A group of students go to the Eden club where they play bizarre and cruel games including fake Russian Roulette, strange rituals, rape, blood-drinking and poison, until a mysterious stranger appears and ups the ante. After a bloody magic trick, he provides an African drug to a girl who sees a montage of fearful images and then slowly appears to live them, wandering into a strange fluid factory and into a postcard of Tunisia, where murders, S&M sex, dancing and a nonsensical plot of kidnapping and torture in order to locate a painting take place. The film is an experience, a reality created by illusions, hallucinations and drugs, with bizarre visuals and details emerging little by little as some images develop into scenes, albeit incoherent ones.

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Robbe-Grillet turned once again to painting and literature for inspiration in his next film. In 1976 he had written a ‘picto-novel’, La Belle Captive, which reprinted some of Magrittes’s paintings including La Belle Captive itself. His 1983 film of the same name used paintings by both Magritte and Edouard Manet as a launching pad, each painting a ‘generation cell’ for the film’s ideas and narrative. Magritte’s Belle Captive is a great painting – formal, poetic, mysterious, it hints at all sorts of possibilities. The drawn curtains open onto a beach and sky. In the stony foreground there is an easel and a painting that visually links the world behind the curtain with the vista in the distance. It’s an audacious, inspiring work that’s a self-conscious reflection on the process of painting, but is also eerie and enigmatic, exuding a strange beauty.

Inspired by the painting, Robbe-Grillet’s film consisted of potent fluctuations, movements between reality and irrational fantasy. As in all his film the lines between the two are gossamer thin. In another re-working of Jules Michelet’s The sorceress, the catalyst that makes the link possible is a woman. The female lead in the film, Marie-Ange (Gabrielle Lazure), wasn’t a witch, she was a vampire who captures the imagination of the male protagonist Walter (Daniel Mesguich)…she bites his neck, transporting him across the divide that separates mundane reality and erotic fantasy. La Belle Captive is laden with imagery prompted by Magritte’s paintings. In one sequence, Marie-Ange mysteriously appears within a picture frame from Walter’s room; later on he sees her through the red curtains on the beach, making her a dreamlike creature, an envoy from fantasyland where desire and terror intermingle.

Sound is an important aspect of all Robbe-Grillet’s films, and in La Belle Captive it adds to the film’s surrealist edge. The skies may be blue and clear, but the soundtrack offers different information, springing to life with ominous thunderclaps. Once again Robbe-Grillet is playing games, thwarting audience expectations, making them work at deciphering the slippery puzzle. –Immoral Tales

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