PLAYING WITH FIRE

An affluent banker (Philippe Noiret) hides his daughter Carolina (Anicée Alvina) in a mysterious house of perversion after a would-be kidnapping attempt results in the abduction of the wrong girl. But what was meant to be a safe house turns out to be just the opposite as Carolina soon finds herself trapped in a deliberately confused existence in a house of sexual exploitation and perversion. At the heart of it all seems to be an enigmatic man named Franz (Jean-Louis Trintignant), who will wind up being Carolina’s savior… or her killer. A surreal, absurdist sadomasochistic drama from filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet, PLAYIN WITH FIRE also features EMMANUELLE star Sylvia Kristel in one of her most challenging roles.