Robbe-Grillet's seductive (or masturbatory) incantations, hypnotically enhanced by a Messiaen-esque organ, drift abstractedly over Resnais's rhythmic images, the mellifluous tracking shots and the jagged cutting, in this eternally beautiful, if no longer fashionable, "puzzle picture," which has to do with powerful (even surrealistic) erotic stirrings in the most frigid, petrified setting: a palatial resort hotel with its perfectly symmetrical architecture, geometric grounds, barbered bushes, classical statuary, and its immaculate clientele, their sculpted hairdos, mannequin postures, unblinking gazes. And don't worry too much about the did-she-or-didn't-she mysteries of the so-called story; worry more about will-she-or-won't-she. Giorgio Albertazzi, Delphine Seyrig. (1961) — Duncan Shepherd
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