That’s right. Summertime and it’s time for some French cinema with a capital C. Enigmatic, dreamlike, baffling. The BAM Rose Cinema is presenting a series of films by the great French new novelist, Alain Robb-e Grillet. Here’s the blurbage from BAM:

A true career switcher, Alain Robbe-Grillet was a scientist until 30, when he began writing. After cementing his literary reputation (as a founder of the nouveau roman and an “immortal” of the Académie Française), Grillet changed gears again. We celebrate his final career move with four films he directed as well as his first screenwriting job—Alain Resnais’ enigmatic masterpiece Last Year at Marienbad. All new prints courtesy of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (except for Marienbad). All films in French with English subtitles and directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet unless otherwise noted.