Catherine Robbe-Grillet

AKA: Catherine Rstakian, Jeanne de Berg, Catherine Carayon
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1930-09-24

Paris, France

Biography

Catherine Robbe-Grillet is a French theatre and cinema actress, photographer, and writer of Armenian descent who has published sadomasochistic writings under the pseudonyms Jean de Berg and Jeanne de Berg.

Crew Roles

The Image
Novel
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
Still Photographer
The Five Senses
Writer
Diner Noir Istanbul
Co-Writer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {17}

(voice)

2021-12-03 4

Jerk

"Jerk" is an imaginary reconstruction – strange, poetic, funny and somber – of the crimes perpetrated by American serial killer Dean Corll who, with the help of teenagers David Brooks and Wayne Henley ...
Genre :Drama

Lucette

1966-12-31 6.8

Trans-Europ-Express

A movie producer, director and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp. They get the idea for a movie about a drug smuggler on their train and visualize it while taping the script ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Self

1997-09-12 5.5

Erotica: A Journey Into Female Sexuality

This feature-length documentary explores a wide range of lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual women’s erotic fantasies and sexual practices. It reveals the conflicts and complexities of female sexualit ...
Genre :Documentary

1972-10-04 0

Flash Love

Jeanne, a little secretary dreaming of love, meets Alain, a reporter-photographer with a major daily newspaper. He takes her along on his professional nocturnal activities, during which she meets a ho ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Self

1998-01-01 0

Violent Femmes

Analog video by Sylvère Lotringer. Extended conversation between two dominatrixes, a younger American woman and an older French woman (Catherine Robbe-Grillet, writer and wife of Alain Robbe-Grillet). ...
Genre :Documentary

Foolish Woman

1970-04-20 6.1

Eden and After

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious man called Duchemin. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

1972-01-11 5.5

N. Took the Dice

N Took the Dice is essentially a reworking of Eden and After made possible by the roll of a dice (scenes from the 1970 film were combined with outtakes and additional footage in an aleatory way). Robb ...
Genre :Drama

Une Soeur dans la Rue (uncredited)

1974-03-07 6.1

Successive Slidings of Pleasure

A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through her heart, as ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

Druggist

1968-03-27 6.7

The Man Who Lies

A man may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter during World War II. He has supposedly been shot down by the Nazis and wanders into town. Mourning the death of an unseen comrade, he is taken i ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, War

Self

2010-08-30 0

The Contract

In 2005 Beverly Charpentier declared an oath of allegiance to French writer Catherine Robbe-Grillet. In doing so she gave up her freedom for the rest of her life. The Contract portrays two strong wome ...
Genre :Documentary

Catherine

1963-03-27 6.9

L'Immortelle

A melancholy man meets a stunning, mysterious woman while he is traveling, and discovers she may or may not be involved in a prostitution ring. She disappears after their relationship lasts a few days ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Self / Dominatrix

2015-02-13 5.1

The Ceremony

In an extravagant house in Paris, people gather for sexual ceremonies in luxurious environments. The 83-year-old author, Catherine Robbe-Grillet is the brains and heart behind the erotic role playing. ...
Genre :Documentary

Woman in burqa

2010-11-19 0

The Five Senses

A woman in a dark blue burqa directs, without a word, four other women in a room. The Five Senses is a sensuous play with power and hierarchy where traditional roles and identities are challenged. ...
Genre :Drama

2015-03-29 0

Diner Noir Istanbul

A nature-hating aesthete, Jean des Esseintes attempts to furnish and decorate a country home where he will be able to live without ever again having to deal with the outside world. ...
Genre :Drama

2014-09-23 0

Brando

A short film about unfulfilled masochistic desire with a score by Scott Walker & Sunn O))). ...
Genre :

Self

2022-09-05 8.5

Alain Resnais, l'audacieux

A genius inventor of forms, Alain Resnais is one of the fathers of cinematic modernity. This portrait, rich in archives, looks back on the career of a discreet non-conformist, in perpetual search of r ...
Genre :Documentary, TV Movie

Self

1975-01-10 8.5

Apostrophes

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 199 ...
Genre :Talk