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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Employed in a cabaret as a go-go girl, Dominique returns home after her shift when she is approached by a former lover, Jean-Louis. She invites him into her apartment where the man’s gaze is soon drawn to the circular bed in the bedroom. Dominique then points out to him that this bed is the subject of an incredible story: it has magical powers, stimulating the libido of the people who are there, making them relive the sexual prowess of its previous owners!

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Rémi Chauveau, 10 years old, lives in a divided family. He first experiences life in a severe boarding school before living with a strict and domineering nanny. As a teenager, he assists a butcher in Paris while getting into mischiefs on saturdays which sometimes lead to the prison. One day, he meets the love of his life …

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“Rebelote” est tout à la fois un hommage au cinéma muet des origines, un drame à la Dickens, où l’enfant Rémi Chauveau subit la tyrannie des adultes, puis, devenu majeur, prolonge ses déconvenues amoureuses et sociales plus ou moins volontairement, et une comédie où l’on découvre un Jean- Pierre Léaud, dans le style d’un Chaplin ou d’un Keaton, dont la performance fut saluée unanimement.

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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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“Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime,” which opened yesterday at the New Yorker Theater, was shown at the eighth New York Film Festival. The following is from Roger Greenspun’s review, which appeared Sept. 15, 1970, in The New York Times.

Like most of the previous films of Alain Resnais, “Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime” is science fiction of a sort. And like virtually all of Resnais’s previous films, its concern is for the past recaptured. To support this concern it proposes a story, the most fragmented of all Resnais’ stories, dealing with, perhaps intense but nevertheless transitory love affair.

Claude (Claude Rich), having recovered from an unsuccessful suicide attempt, is picked for an experiment by a secret research center that studies time. Claude, along with a laboratory mouse, is placed inside a large soft brain-shaped structure, from which he is to be transported back to relive one minute at 4 in the afternoon exectly one year ago. He does relive that minute (he is snorkeling on vacation in southern France, and “underwater” becomes a recurring image and idea for the film), but he begins reliving it several times over–and then in bits and pieces he begins to relive other moments scattered through the seven years he lived with Catrine (Olga Georges-Picot), whom he thinks he killed and for whose death he had tried to kill himself.

Assuming that they have lost him forever, and sadly admitting that their experiment has been a most incomplete success, the research scientists wander out of the laboratory–only to discover Claude, a bullet in his gut (he has most recently relived his botched suicide) lying on the grass. But in their despondency and concern they forget the little mouse, who did come back, and now sniffs forlornly inside his container within the giant brain.

I am disturbed by that mouse, not only for the bathos of the image but also because his situation so ludicrously (and, I think, so intentionally) recalls that of the wife, Simone, looking for her husband, already light years away, inside another woman’s deserted apartment at the end of Resnais’s one masterpiece, “Muriel.” For “Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime” resembles “Muriel” in so many close ways that the success of the older film (1963) stands in almost total reproach to the general banality of the newer one.

Although obsessed with time, memory, the past, the physical material of “Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime” is its love story and the daily lives of the couple involved in it. But in that story and in those lives it finds so little of interest or urgency that with all its perceptual complexity it comes to seem an enormous and ingenious structure with almost nothing inside it. NY Times, May 8, 1972

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