Jean Rollin
Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil (3 November 193815 December 2010) was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his work in the fantastique genre.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Robbe-Grillet then went on to launch a career as a writer-director of a series of cerebral and often sexually provocative feature films which explored similar themes to those in his literary work (e.g. Voyeurism, The Body as Text, The 'Double'). He commenced with "L'Immortelle" ("The Immortal One") (1962) which won the much-coveted "Louis Delluc Prize" of 1962. This was followed by his most commercially successful film after "Last Year at Marienbad": "Trans-Europ-Express" (1966) starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, who continued to work with Robbe-Grillet on his next four films: his French-Slovak film "L'homme qui ment/Muž, ktorý luže" ("The Man Who Lies") (1968), "L'Eden et après/Eden a potom" ("Eden and After") (1970), "Glissements progressifs du plaisir" ("Progressive Slidings towards Pleasure") (1974) and "Le jeu avec le feu" ("Playing with Fire") (1975). It was almost a decade before the appearance of his next feature film, "La belle captive" ("The Beautiful Captive") (1983), but Alain Robbe-Grillet was fortunate enough to enlist the services of Henri Alekan as cinematographer, the visionary master of cinematography for the films of Jean Cocteau. Subsequently, more than a decade passed before Alain Robbe-Grillet got behind the lens again, this time filming a mystery thriller on a small Greek island with Fred Ward starring as the confused Frank in "Un bruit qui rend fou". Robbe-Grillet ("A Maddening Noise", aka: "The Blue Villa") (1995). Before his death in 2008 Robbe-Grillet was to direct one more film, "Gradiva" ("C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle") (2006) which brought once more to the fore his preoccupation with sadism and bondage in his fiction. Perhaps the best introduction to the film works of Alain Robbe-Grillet is the volume "The Erotic Dream Machine" by Professors Roch C.Smith and Anthony N. Fragola. Also of great value is the volume "In the Temple of Dreams: The Writer on the Screen" in which Robbe-Grillet himself explains the relationship between his literary fiction and his cinematic fiction (ed. Edouard d'Araille, 1996).
In 1975, Robbe-Grillet and René Magritte published a book entitled "La Belle Captive". The book is referred to as a "roman" (novel) and is illustrated with 77 paintings by Magritte interspersed with discourse written by Robbe-Grillet. The eponymous film "La Belle captive", written and directed by Robbe-Grillet, was released in 1983.