The Beautiful Prisoner

The Beautiful Prisoner

90 mins | Drama, Mystery, Fantasy | Feb. 16, 1983

Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte's paintings. In the morning, the girl, Marie-Ange, has vanished, the villa looks derelict, and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a nightmare?

The Beautiful Prisoner

90 mins | Drama, Mystery, Fantasy | Feb. 16, 1983

The Beautiful Prisoner
Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte's paintings. In the morning, the girl, Marie-Ange, has vanished, the villa looks derelict, and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a nightmare?
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Argos Films, France 3
Original title La Belle Captive
Directors Alain Robbe-Grillet
Writers Frank Verpillat, Alain Robbe-Grillet

Cast

Daniel Mesguich

as Walter Raim

Gabrielle Lazure

as Marie-Ange van de Reeves

Cyrielle Clair

as Sara Zeitgeist

Daniel Emilfork

as Inspector Francis

Roland Dubillard

as Prof van de Reeves

François Chaumette

as Dr. Morgentodt

Arielle Dombasle

as The hysterical woman

Michel Auclair

as La voix de Walter (voice)