Last Year at Marienbad
At a social gathering at a château or baroque hotel, a man insists to a woman that they have met before. But it seems she hardly remembers the affair they may have had (or not?) last year at Marienbad.
7 December 1928, Paris, France
January 17, 1925 in UK
10 October 1911, Saint-Eugène, Algiers, Algeria
11 March 1920, Geneva, Switzerland
2 August 1913, Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
1932
20 August 1923, Fiesole, Tuscany, Italy
25 April 1930, Taranto, Puglia, Italy
23 September 1925, Paris, France
27 November 1927, Paris, France
August 18, 2014
[VIDEO ESSAY] Alain Resnais's transcendent filmic parlor game remains an innovative and exquisitely executed example of minimalist filmmaking, used to evoke mystery, romance, and a sprinkle social invective.July 10, 2011
I've always found it romantic and sexy, full of yearning and mystery.February 01, 2008
Remains one of cinema's glorious enigmas, endlessly compelling and intriguing.July 07, 2011
Profoundly mysterious and disturbing, a para-surrealist masterpiece whose nightmarish scenario appears to have been absorbed from Buñuel and Antonioni and transmitted onward to Greenaway.January 15, 2008
The film's dreamlike cadences, frozen tableaux, and distilled surrealist poetry are too eerie, too terrifying even, to be shaken off as camp. For all its notoriety, this masterpiece among masterpieces has never really received its due.February 29, 2008
Marienbad is elegantly hermetic, a ravishing waxworks that has stillness at its heart.February 09, 2006
Obscure, oneiric, it's either some sort of masterpiece or meaningless twaddle.January 15, 2008
The movie is what it is -- a sustained mood, an empty allegory, a choreographed moment outside of time, and a shocking intimation of perfection.December 21, 2011
The poster child of cinematic modernism, one of those early-'60s event films that seemed to break every rule classical Hollywood ever codified.July 07, 2011
an enigmatic mind-melt that sends characters and viewers alike on a chronology-confounding loop down labyrinthine corridors and up garden paths in pursuit of a (re)solution that, even after it has been found, remains elusive and ambiguous.May 01, 2008
To even talk of a story is nonsensical, since a central aesthetic of the film involves the effects of fantasy, time and subjective memory on human consciousness. Marienbad takes place in a heightened, sci-fi nightmare world where knowing, believingJuly 08, 2011
Was there ever a film thought so boring by so many yet accorded the status of a classic?