Plot
The story involves a young American who falls obsessively in love with a mysterious courtesan named Melania against the backdrop of a dilapidated Eastern European landscape.Sources
Writing in English
* Beugnet, Martine. (2005) ‘Evil and the senses: Philippe Grandrieux’s ''Sombre'' and ''La Vie nouvelle''’, ''Studies in French Cinema'', 5(3), pp. 175–184. https://doi.org/10.1386/sfci.5.3.175/1. * Beugnet, Martine. (2007) ''Cinema and sensation: French film and the art of transgression''. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. * Chamarette, Jenny. (2013) ''Phenomenology and the future of film: rethinking subjectivity beyond French cinema''. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ee chapter 5: Threatened Corporealities: Thinking with the Films of Philippe Grandrieux* Goddard, Michael. (2011) ‘Eastern Extreme: The Presentation of Eastern Europe as a Site of Monstrosity in ''La Vie nouvelle'' and ''Import/Export''’, in Tanya Horeck and Tina Kendall (eds) ''The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe''. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 82–92. * Hainge, Greg. (2007) ‘''Le corps concret'': Of bodily and filmic material excess in Philippe Grandrieux’s cinema’, ''Australian Journal of French Studies'', 44(2), pp. 153–171. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/AJFS.44.2.153. * Hainge, Greg. (2008) ‘''L’Invention du Troisième Peuple'': The Utopian vision of Philippe Grandrieux’s dystopias’, in J. West-Sooby (ed.) ''Nowhere is perfect: French and Francophone utopias/dystopias''. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, pp. 228–239. * Hainge, Greg. (2017) ''Philippe Grandrieux: Sonic Cinema''. New York ; London: Bloomsbury Academic (Ex:centrics). * Ladegaard, Jakob. (2014) ‘Spatial Affects: Body and Space in Philippe Grandrieux’s ''La Vie nouvelle''’, in L. Sætre, P. Lombardo, and J. Zanetta (eds) ''Exploring text and emotions''. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, pp. 151–176. * Martin, Adrian. (2004) ‘Dance Girl Dance: Philippe Grandrieux’s ''La Vie nouvelle'' (''The New Life'', 2002)’, ''Kinoeye'', 4(3). http://www.kinoeye.org/04/03/martin03.php * Watkins, Raymond. (2016) ‘Robert Bresson’s Heirs: Bruno Dumont, Philippe Grandrieux, and French Cinema of Sensation’, ''Quarterly Review of Film and Video'', 33(8), pp. 761–776. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2016.1191895.Writing in French
* Brenez, Nicole. (ed.) (2005) ''La vie nouvelle, nouvelle vision: à propos d’un film de Philippe Grandrieux''. Paris: Scheer.Writing in German
* Morsch, Thomas. (2011) ''Medienästhetik des Films: verkörperte Wahrnehmung und ästhetische Erfahrung im Kino''. Munich: Wilhelm Fink. * Oxen, Nicolas. (2019) ‘Das sensorische Bild: Instabile Wahrnehmungsrelationen im Kino von Philippe Grandrieux’, in C. Voss, K. Krtilova, and L. Engell (eds) ''Medienanthropologische Szenen''. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill , Fink, pp. 183–203. Available at:External links
* 2002 films French avant-garde and experimental films French erotic films 2000s avant-garde and experimental films New French Extremity films 2000s French films {{experimental-film-stub