L'Immortelle (The Immortal Woman) (France, 1963) October 16, 2008

A man shares an abrupt, passionate affair with a woman who soon disappears. Fearing that she has been kidnapped and forced into prostitution, he searches the labyrinthine streets of Istanbul for her. Robbe-Grillet's directorial debut disturbingly evokes the mystery of a strange, foreign land. Time Out calls 'L'Immortelle' a "fragmented mystery-romance.