2011-11-30

Alice or the Last Escapade




Alice or the Last Escapade

Alice or the Last Escapade
Directed by Claude Chabrol
Produced by Pierre Gauchet
Patrick Hildebrand
Eugène Lépicier
Screenplay by Claude Chabrol
Based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Starring Sylvia Kristel
Charles Vanel
Music by Pierre Jansen
Cinematography Jean Rabier
Editing by Monique Fardoulis
Studio Filmel
# P.H.P.G.
Distributed by Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC)
Release date(s) 19 January 1977
Running time 93 min.
Country France
Language French

Alice or the Last Escapade. is a 1977 film written and directed by Claude Chabrol. Its title in French is Alice ou la dernière fugue. The film is very loosely inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, including the protagonist's name being Alice Carroll (a combination of the Alice character and the author's pseudonym's surname).

Plot

While leaving her husband, whom she has grown to despise, Alice (Sylvia Kristel) drives into the pristine countryside but must stop at an old house after her windshield cracks mysteriously. The people receive her at the house as if she were expected, and she spends the night there while her car is repaired. The next day, she finds that she cannot find the highway from whence she came, and reluctantly returns again to the old house where she is told "accept" her situation by a young man and realizes that she is in limbo. After she walks down a dark cellar, the woman's body is seen hanging out of her demolished car. She has finally met Death.

Principal cast

Critical reception

From TV Guide:

“ College philosophy-course idea is given a lush photographic treatment by the Hitchcock-influenced Frenchman Chabrol. ”


From www.devlidead.com:

“ Chabrol, ranging from expressionism and realism, depicts a parallel dimension in which there is any obvious duality between good and evil present in the sets, characters, narration, lighting... However, even if the fantasy genre, revealing himself completely new in the career of the director, is perfectly controlled, it appears that the film is very "chabrolien", that is to say close to his characters, which, in are concerned, operate in a microcosm in which their different psychological profiles give rise to power relations. Chabrol, who knows human nature, dissects every move of our heroine, and leads inexorably towards the abyss... At present, even though the film tends to go unnoticed in the career of the filmmaker, ALICE OR THE LAST FUGUE remains a work unique, unclassifiable among other treasures chabroliens as exciting as each other. By adapting the tale of Lewis Carroll "French," Chabrol has risen to the challenge of maintaining its fantasy genre film convictions. ”


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