Northwest Film Forum

This was Robbe–Grillet’s first excursion into color, shot in Tunisia and Czechoslovakia. While part of an actor’s group, Catherine tries some ’fear powder’ offered to her by mysterious stranger Duche–min. He vanishes and she sets off for North Africa to find him, living for real the hallucinations she had witnessed earlier. Says Robbe–Grillet, “This is a film about colors. About the blue and white of the landscape, and about the red that would come to stain it cruelly.”