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Its obsessive characters, abrupt transitions, abstract narrative and hyper-naturalistic attention to detail also recall the French nouvelle romans of Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet.

She was drawn to outsiders like Jean Genet and those, like Alain Robbe-Grillet, who recoiled from conventional storytelling.

He appeared in experimental films directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet, better known for his avant-garde literature.

His projects included modern and classic French books, from the memoirs of Charles de Gaulle to experimental novels by Alain Robbe-Grillet to the philosophy of Howard’s friend Roland Barthes.

More than two decades after directing “The Blue Villa” with Alain Robbe-Grillet, Dimitri de Clercq makes his solo debut here, with a film as much about memory as Robbe-Grillet’s most famous screenwriting credit, “Last Year at Marienbad.”