Last Year at Marienbad
by Alain Resnais
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Actor: Delphine Seyrig, Fran?oise Bertin, Giorgio Albertazzi, Luce Garcia-Ville, Sacha Pito?ffDirector: Alain Resnais
Cinematographer: Sacha Vierny
Editor: Henri Colpi
Editor: Jasmine Chasney
Producer: Pierre Courau
Producer: Raymond Froment
Writer: Alain Robbe-Grillet
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: French (Original Language), Unknown; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.35:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-03-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Fox Lorber
Movie Reviews of Last Year at Marienbad
Movie Review: This movie is not slow - the world has ADD
Summary: 5 Stars
Alain Resnais makes Terrence Malick look like Guy Ritchie. You will often read the word "dreamlike" in connection with this film but that's misleading in a way because it implies the soft, CGI limpness of today's film fantasy fare. What makes this movie's other-wordly quality so unsettling is how deeply rooted it is in the real world - in the concrete and the solid. It's full of walls and heavy furniture and large rooms and weighty doors and formal gardens and attire. In fact, it's so loaded down with its own visual weight, it shouldn't budge. But it floats and soars and weaves memory and desire together so deftly that you constantly feel as though you're flying through the interiors, a kind of all seeing - though never quite fully comprehending - spirit. This is a marvelous film. One of the best ever made - because it works on you for days, weeks and even years after.
Summary of Last Year at Marienbad
One of the most ferociously iconoclastic and experimental films of the French New Wave, Alain Resnais's 1961 feature, winner of the grand prize at that year's Venice Film Festival, is based on a script by Alain Robbe-Grillet. At its center is what seems to be a simple but unanswerable puzzle: Did its protagonist (Giorgio Albertazzi) have an affair the year before with a woman (Delphine Seyrig) he just met (or possibly re-met) at his hotel? The inquiry becomes an unsettling experiment in flattening the dimensions of past, present, and future so that any difference between them becomes meaningless, while Resnais's coldly formal but oddly dreamlike geometric compositions make space itself seem a function of subjective memory. Add to that Resnais's trademark tracking shots--long, smooth, a visual correlative of a wordless feeling--and this is a film that truly gets under the skin in almost inexplicable ways. One of the most influential works of its time. --Tom KeoghArt House & International DVD Video
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