He looks menacing and she looks like a deer caught in the headlights. I don't find this set-up particularly sexy myself, because she looks both terrified and vaguely disgusted.
Tho' i definitely recognize that a menacing, voracious interaction like this can be deeply sexy.
The sexuality in the movie has definite S/M overtones, with more than a hint of violence. One of the interpretations I've seen of the fractured quality of the narrative is that she's suppressing a memory of having been raped. Apparently Robbe-Grillet (the screenwriter) felt she had been raped, while Resnais (the director) didn't think so. Either way, there's a mood of dread that makes it seem as though something deeply unpleasant has happened or is about to happen.
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randy_byers) wrote2009-09-26 09:34 am
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Tho' i definitely recognize that a menacing, voracious interaction like this can be deeply sexy.
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