Or if he does, he's keeping it well-hidden. Yet are we to take this as a serious avant-garde experiment in the style of Alain Resnais? Or is it just a slice of arty smut? Robbe-Grillet himself seems not to know the answer. He takes her to a mansion, where many kidnapped girls. The images are so glacially beautiful, they look like a Helmut Newton photo album sprung to life. A man whose girl is threatened to be kidnapped sends her for protection with a private detective. Participating in the fun and games are a young and exceptionally lovely Sylvia Kristel and French soft-porno legend Joelle Coeur. One young lady has a 'close personal friendship' with a mastiff hound. The randy Robbe-Grillet, meanwhile, indulges in all his usual fetishes: torture, lesbianism, necrophilia. This may be symbolic in some highly obscure way offscreen voices keep warbling snatches of Il Trovatore. When straight-laced fire superintendent Jake Carson (John Cena) and his elite team of expert firefighters. In real life, this 'brothel' is the interior of the Palais Garnier - for years the theatre of the Paris Opera. He locks the girl up for safe-keeping in a deluxe Art Nouveau brothel, where he himself is a regular client. Desperate to raise a few francs, he decides to fake the kidnapping of his own daughter (Anicee Alvina) and pocket the ransom. When straight-laced fire superintendent Jake Carson and his elite team of firefighters come to the rescue of three siblings, they quickly realize that no amount. The plot (as far as I can discern one) has Philippe Noiret as a corrupt tycoon teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Strictly a relative term, and allowances have to be made. Playing with FIRE follows 35 year old Scott Rieckens, his wife Taylor, and their toddler Jovie as they embark on a year-long odyssey to understand the rules of this sub-culture and test their willingness to reject the standard narrative of adult life, which basically prescribes: Go to college, take out tons of student loans, buy a new car, take on a mortgage, buy another car and lots more. Mind you, an 'accessible' Robbe-Grillet is like a 'good' Ben Affleck movie. A series of elegantly kinky erotic tableaux, strung together by a mock-thriller plot, this may be Alain Robbe-Grillet's most linear and accessible film.
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