Alain Robbe-Grillet: Formal Games

A leading figure of the Nouveau Roman movement and the screenwriter of Last Year at Marienbad, an aesthetic and narrative manifesto of 1960s cinema, Alain Robbe-Grillet liked to play games. He went on to direct a dozen feature films, all poking fun at the blurred lines between fantasy and reality, while also disrupting time and space. This program features a few key films from his early directorial period.