The Immortal Woman
Sep 06 - Sep 07, 2008
Robbe-Grillet's first solo directorial feature, scripted before Last Year at Marienbad, The Immortal Woman was only completed in 1962. Winner of the Prix Louis Delluc, this enigmatic film tells the story of N., who falls in love with the elusive stranger Leila in Istanbul. She disappears mysteriously and he is determined he will find her again. Robbe-Grillet plays out this dance of desire, illusion, and death in Byzantium, repeating sequences in altered form to emphasize the unreliability of fact, the elusiveness of the past. The eerie, evocative soundtrack includes unnerving music by Georges Delerue.