Successive Slidings of Pleasure

A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does have powers, to make all people around her fall prey to her spell, glissing progressively into desire, lust, and the unknown.

• Alain Robbe-GrilletWriter
• Alain Robbe-GrilletDirector

• Anicée AlvinaAlice/The Prisoner
• Olga Georges-PicotNora/The Lawyer
• Michael LonsdaleThe Judge
• Marianne EggerickxClaudia
• Isabelle HuppertThe Student
• Maxence MailfortThe Client
• Claude MarcaultSoeur Julia
• Nathalie ZeigerSoeur Maria
• Jean-Louis TrintignantThe Police Commissioner
• Hubert NiogretThe Photographer (uncredited)
• Alain Robbe-GrilletUn Passant dans la Rue (uncredited)
• Catherine Robbe-GrilletUne Soeur dans la Rue (uncredited)