Provocateur, pornographer, tireless deconstructor of stereotypes, and cunning devisor of narrative traps, Robbe-Grillet was one of the leading theoreticians and practitioners of the objective French “New Novel” that would act as a wellspring of inspiration for several New Wave filmmakers of the “Left Bank” school. Like fellow New Novelist Marguerite Duras, he came to cinema through a collaboration with Alain Resnais—Robbe-Grillet wrote the screenplay for Resnais’s 1961 Last Year at Marienbad—before eventually turning to directing movies himself. This program brings together five of the finest of Robbe-Grillet’s enigmatic, erotic films, works which operate according to their own strict, secretive sets of rules while also demonstrating a sense of sensual abandon and stylistic liberation.
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