Successive Slidings of Pleasure
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Successive Slidings of Pleasure (Glissements progressifs du plaisir) is a 1974 French art film directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet.
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Plot
The film delves into the surreal and demented psyche of a young woman following the murder of her partner Nora. She is incarcerated in a convent prison where her sexual and sadistic desires interrupt her sense of reality.
It is the story of a young woman who is being questioned by the police because she is suspected of being a modern witch. Her roommate has been found dead, her heart impaled by a pair of scissors while she lay attached to bedposts. Original music by Michel Fano.
Cast
- Anicée Alvina - The Prisoner
- Olga Georges-Picot - Nora
- Michael Lonsdale - The Judge
- Jean Martin - The Priest
- Marianne Eggerickx - Claudia
- Claude Marcault - Soeur Julia
- Maxence Mailfort - Client / Customer
- Nathalie Zeiger - Sister Maria
- Bob Wade - Fossoyeur / Gravedigger
- Jean-Louis Trintignant - The police Lieutenant
- Isabelle Huppert - Bit
- Hubert Niogret - Le photographe
- Alain Robbe-Grillet - Un passant
- Catherine Robbe-Grillet - Une soeur
Production
Luc Béraud is the assistant director on the film.
Release
Successive Slidings of Pleasure was released in France in 1974 where it was distributed by Lira Films.
See also
Automatic translation from the German Wikipedia, 22/9/20
A teenager (Alice in the Cine novel) is held in a nun-run prison on charges of killing her friend and roommate Nora with scissors. When she was arrested at the scene, she initially did not comment on the inspector's seemingly pointless questions. She told the examining magistrate that the murderer was an unknown man who suddenly appeared and had a key to the apartment. She gets lost more and more in fantasies in which blood, sexuality and violence play a role. The examining magistrate, the nuns and a priest follow her and neglect their duties. At some point in the course of the investigation - the timing is not entirely clear - a lawyer appears who is strangely similar to Nora and who gradually identifies herself with the murder victim. The film ends somewhat surprisingly with a renewed appearance by the inspector, who declares that the perpetrator has been captured and confessed.
The years from 1973 to 1976, immediately before and after the lifting of film censorship in 1974, are considered to be the golden age of erotic and pornographic cinema in France. Not only did foreign productions such as Deep Throat hit the French market, the French film industry also reached a large audience with erotic films such as Emmanuelle and The Story of O. The constant glide of desire can be found in a number of auteur films such as The Last Tango in Paris, The Night Porter and Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, which benefited from this development.
In the press release on the film, Robbe-Grillet refers to the book The Witch (La sorcière) by Jules Michelet and its influence on the portrayal of the main female character. “Young and beautiful, accused of a crime in a world in which a petrified law robs all hope, she wants to break the yoke of the established order (the state power, the repressive judiciary, the Church, the Sorbonne ...) by facing the forbidden and turns towards the unnatural. "(Alain Robbe-Grillet)
An intermedia reference to painting can be found in a scene that is particularly successful from the director's point of view. The naked main actress paints her body with red paint and then presses herself against the white wall several times, so that she creates a series of prints that are strongly reminiscent of the blue anthropometries of Yves Klein.
