Postface : une étrange familiarité

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Alain Robbe-Grillet directed L'Immortelle in 1963, with Françoise Brion and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze as lead actors. In this interview with Michel Fano, who had himself presented a project for an adaptation of Les Gommes to the author, the question of film writing in relation to the novel is raised. Alain Robbe-Grillet evokes the shooting which takes place entirely on natural sets in Istanbul and its surroundings, the opposition between the image of reality and the reality of the image, the characteristic structure of the film through the play of appearances and disappearances. Taking up Lacan's formula, the real is the unacceptable, he shows in the representation of Istanbul this city precisely as a real universe, that is to say, a non-realist one.

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