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Gradiva
Gradiva
5.7
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171 Ratings

GRADIVA

C’est Gradiva qui vous appelle

Directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet
France, Belgium, 2006
Drama, Horror

Synopsis

An English historian travels to Morocco to work on a study of the painter Delacroix. A search for a rare series of engravings takes him through the streets of the ancient medina. There he encounters a beautiful, mysterious woman dressed in white and becomes obsessed with her…

Synopsis

An English historian travels to Morocco to work on a study of the painter Delacroix. A search for a rare series of engravings takes him through the streets of the ancient medina. There he encounters a beautiful, mysterious woman dressed in white and becomes obsessed with her…

Our take

An isolated villa in Marrakech serves as the ethereal backdrop for this hallucinatory journey, where an orientalist professor is haunted by a mysterious female presence. Jumping in time between reality and fantasy, Gradiva is a labyrinthine descent into the darkest corners of the human libido.