Blu-ray Review – L’immortelle

I'm beginning to understand what inspired David Lynch to start directing films. 1963's "L'immortelle" exists in a dreamscape, or perhaps a nightmare, or perhaps it's all set in a level of purgatory. Famed French New Wave architect Alain Robbe-Grillet isn't in the mood to provide answers with his directorial debut. He's mounted an avant-garde ode to the minutiae of loss and psychological disorder, setting this often indescribable tale in Istanbul, where the lead character and the viewer are strangers in a strange land, unable to decode the local language and decipher the landscapes. "L'immortelle" isn't an approachable picture by any means, instead marching forward as an exercise in cinematic form. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com