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GRADIVA (C’EST GRADIVA QUI VOUS APPELLE)
DISTR Theatrical, FRANCE, and french speaking territories
Release date : May 09, 2007
 
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Completed - FRENCH - Drama, Erotic - 110 minutes

Year of production : 2006

Director(s) : Alain ROBBE-GRILLET
Cast : Arielle DOMBASLE, Dany VERISSIMO, Farid CHOPEL, James WILBY

Synopsis

John Locke, an art historian, is doing research on Orientalism in the visual arts — with a particular
focus on Delacroix and the work he did in Morocco — under the jealous scrutiny of Belkis, his very young and
enigmatic servant-mistress. John stumbles into a series of recurring, elusive encounters with a willowy,
evanescent woman in the medina, who lures him through a labyrinth of Marrakech alleyways and then vanishes
into thin air. Finally, he meets Anatoli, an alleged antiques dealer and coordinator of Orientalism exhibitions for
perverse amateurs. Despite Belkis’ desperate objections, John is drawn into this web of sado-erotic phantasms
by Anatoli and the pseudo-ghost of the too-beautiful woman, without realizing that he’s being manipulated.

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Country(ies) : FRANCE

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