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Last Year at Marienbad (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] by Alain Resnais
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Helena Kornel, Luce Garcia-Ville, Sacha Pitoeff Director: Alain Resnais Brand: Image Entertainment Cinematographer: Sacha Vierny Composer: Francis Seyrig Blu-ray: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language) Format: Black & White, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 94 minutes Blu-ray Release Date: 2009-06-23 Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: Criterion
Summary of Last Year at Marienbad (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]Not just a defining work of the French New Wave but one of the great, lasting mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais? epochal visual poem has been puzzling appreciative viewers for decades. A surreal fever dream, or perhaps a nightmare, Last Year at Marienbad (L?année dernière à Marienbad), written by the radical master of the New Novel, Alain Robbe-Grillet, gorgeously fuses the past with the present in telling its ambiguous tale of a man and a woman (Giorgio Albertazzi and Delphine Seyrig) who may or may not have met a year ago, perhaps at the very same cathedral-like, mirror-bedecked château they now find themselves wandering. Unforgettable in both its confounding details (gilded ceilings, diabolical parlor games, a loaded gun) and haunting scope, Resnais? investigation into the nature of memory is disturbing, romantic, and maybe even a ghost story. DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: ? New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Alain Resnais, with an uncompressed monaural soundtrack ? New audio interview with Resnais ? New documentary on the making of Last Year at Marienbad, featuring interviews with many of Resnais? collaborators ? New video interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau on the history of the film and its many mysteries ? Two short documentaries by Resnais: Toute la mémoire du monde (1956) and Le chant du styrène (1958) ? Theatrical trailer ? Optional original, unrestored French soundtrack ? New and improved subtitle translation ? PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critic Mark Polizzotti and film scholar François Thomas, and Alain Robbe-Grillet?s introduction to the published screenplay and comments on the film
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