Last Year in Marienbad: ("L'annee Derniere a Marienbad")A quintessential work of 1960s European art cinema, "L'Annee derniere a Marienbad "("Last Year in Marienbad, "1961) was a collaboration between director Alain Resnais and 'New Novel" enfant terrible Alain Robbe-Grillet. Three people, known only by their initials, move through the sprawling luxury of a mysterious hotel and its ornamental gardens. Perhaps M is A's husband and X her lover. Perhaps '"last year," A promised X she would leave with him. Or is there something more terrible in the past? An abstract thriller, a love story, a philosophical puzzle, the film's deviations are, for Jean-Louis Leutrat, as complex as those of the human heart. |
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actors actress Alain Resnais Alain Robbe-Grillet Albertazzi André Antonioni appearance background baroque beginning Benayoun BFI Film Classics Cahiers du Cinéma camera movements characters Cinémathèque Claude Ollier close-up collapsed balustrade Colpi corridor décor Delphine Seyrig dernière à Marienbad dialogue directors dress echo Éditions de Minuit evokes face-on Fantômas figure film-maker film-maker's frame French cinema garden gaze gestures Gilles Deleuze Godard Grillet Hiroshima mon amour husband idea immobile Jacques Saulnier Jean Léon L'Année dernière L'Arc L'Atelier looking Louise Brooks Messiaen mirror nouveau roman novel novelist Paris Philippe Brun play plinth poses present Quatre de Marienbad Ramsay Poche Cinéma recognise repetition Resnais wanted Resnais's film Robbe-Grillet's text Robert Robert Benayoun Sacha Vierny scenario scene Schleissheim screenplay seen sequence shadows sound soundtrack spectator stage statue studio Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues Sylvette Baudrot theatre things tracking shot transformation trompe-l'oeil voice words writer young woman