Based on a story by Julien Gracq, who shares with director André Delvaux a tendency towards the surreal and fantastic, Rendezvous à Bray is an enigmatic, fluid film about two male musician friends and a woman whom we first see during World War I. Later, mysteriously, one of the men is invited to meet the other at a country chateau. He encounters instead a shadowy Anna Karina and a meal of his favorite food and wine. Flashbacks, discontinuous chronology and ambiguous occurrences coalesce into a hypnotic spell.
“...sometimes poignant, sometimes enormously funny, an enchanting, atmospheric house of emotional mirrors. Among the delights of the film are an extended scene in which the protagonist (Mathieu Carrière, star of Young Torless) plays accompaniment to the Feuillade film Fantômas....” --Ken Wlaschin, Films and Filming