Les Mystères du Château du Dé

This is one of the more watchable efforts from the Kino "Avant-Garde" set (no mean feat, really, given the excess of triviality on display!), if essentially due to its intrinsic weirdness. It is bookended by shots of mannequins holding a pair of dice: whether these 'pull the strings' with respect to the remaining 'plot', where characters' actions seem to be determined by whether they decide to play the game or not, remains – given the film's title – its biggest mystery to this viewer!

Apparently, one of the two protagonists who go to a country villa and have a run of the place for 2 days (since it is uninhabited), is the director himself…but it is hard to tell due to the fact that all the characters wear tights over their heads, completely obscuring their facial features! Eventually, two new figures enter the proceedings – they dance a little (negative exposition takes over briefly at this point) and stumble upon the dice…effectively bringing things full-circle and, thus, back to where we came in!