Playing With Fire

With his shady finances about to collapse, banker Georges de Saxe (Philippe Noiret) connived to fake the kidnapping of his teenage daughter Carolina (Anicée Alvina) with an eye toward pocketing the ransom. As seedy investigator Franz (Jean-Louis Trintignant) spirits the girl away for safekeeping to an Art Noveau brothel favored by her father, there may be a double-cross to cap the kinky goings-on. Alain Robbe-Grillet's slice of sensual surrealism also stars Sylvia Kristel, Christine Boisson. 112 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: French, English; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; featurette; image gallery; theatrical trailers. In French with English subtitles/Dubbed in English.