The Beautiful Prisoner

The Beautiful Prisoner

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Release Date

2/16/1983

Runtime

88 mins

Overview

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?

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

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Revenue

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A hallucinatory slip between desire and nightmare, where a man's encounter with a mysterious woman dissolves into disorienting surrealism. The film blurs dream logic with visceral dread, leaving you uncertain what was real.

Mood

UnsettlingWistful

Themes

ObsessionIdentityMemory

Pacing

Meditative

Look

Painterly

Structure

Framed flashback

Heads up

Sexual content

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