N. a pris les dés...
N. a pris les dés... (French for "N. has taken the dice...") is a 1971 experimental drama directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet, a French-Tunisian-Czechoslovak co-production. Written and directed by Robbe-Grillet, the 79-minute film employs a narrative style close to independent underground cinema and was broadcast on television in 1975.
Its most striking feature is its production method: Robbe-Grillet agreed to make two separate films from the same footage, editing identical scenes in different ways to create two entirely distinct narratives. The first is Eden and After, the second N. a pris les dés..., whose title is an anagram of the first film's original French title. Both films tell the same story, but this one recounts the events from the male character's perspective rather than the female character's, handing the narrator's voice over to him. Through editing and voice-over choices alone, the same images take on a wholly different meaning, making the film a typical example of Robbe-Grillet's effort to carry the narrative experimentation of the nouveau roman into cinema.
| Director | Alain Robbe-Grillet |
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