I told you that you looked alive.

X's voice: You were alone, apart. You were leaning at a slight angle against a stone balustrade on which your hand was resting, your arm half extended...

The voice stops. A is not in the position indicated by the text being spoken: she is standing, as a matter of fact, quite close to the balustrade, perfectly vertical in relation to it (that is, staring straight ahead over the rail, perpendicular to the latter), and seen from behind in a three-quarters view in relation to the camera. She then corrects her position: she moves a little away from the balustrade, turns slightly to one side, extends one arm to rest her hand on the stone (whereas she had had both arms alongside her body) and stares toward the central path; she is then seen exactly from behind in relation to the camera.

text by Alain Robbe-Grillet for the film by Alain Resnais