The Blue Villa
| Un buit qui rend fou | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Alain Robbe-Grillet Dimitri de Clercq |
| Written by | Alain Robbe-Grillet Dimitri de Clercq |
| Produced by | Jaques de Clercq Domenique Fobe Gerard Ruey Jerome Paillard Stephen Beckner Jaqueline Pierreux |
| Starring | Fred Ward Arielle Dombasle Sandrine Le Berre Charles Tordjman Dimitris Poulikakos Michalis Maniatis Christian Maillet |
| Distributed by | Nomad Films |
Release date | 17 February 1995 (Berlin International Film Festival) |
Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | Template:Film France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | 2,700,000 BEF (= 600,000 $) |
The Blue Villa (Template:Lang-fr) is a 1995 French crime thriller film with Fred Ward. It was entered into the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]
Plot
The complexly interwoven lives of the residents of an isolated Greek island form the basis of this psycho-sexual drama from iconoclastic film-maker Alain Robbe-Grillet. Living on the island are a few native Greeks, several Chinese, who spend their days playing mah-jongg, Nordmann, a boozy screenwriter, and seductive Sarah la-Blonde, the madam at the Blue Villa, the town whorehouse, in which Sarah hides Santa, alias Lotus Blossom. Sarah is teaching Santa to sing an aria from Wagner. One day, Frank, who could be a ghost, arrives on the island. At first he never speaks and appears to be looking for something or someone. It is later learned that he was involved in the supposed death of Santa, who just might be Nordmann's daughter. It is up to the local police chief, Thieu, to figure out what parts of the story are true and what parts are fiction.
Cast
- Fred Ward
- Arielle Dombasle
- Charles Tordjman
- Sandrine Le Berre
- Dimitris Poulikakos
- Christian Maillet
- Muriel Jacobs
- Michael Maniatis
References
- ^ "Berlinale: 1995 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
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