Last Year at Marienbad
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Movie Reviews of Last Year at Marienbad
Movie Review: Sailing into seas of uncharted film waters.
Summary: 5 Stars
The brilliant Last Year At Marienbad truly goes where no other film has tread before.The director Alain Resnais actually delves into Einstein`s theory of relativity but applies it to the language,theory,and chronological dynamics of film.By using editing techniques one can freeze accellerate or slow the time of a film by simply altering,splicing or tampering with the frames or pacing of the projectors film speed.The scene in the ballroom that appears early in the film involving idle rich couples who at once freeze.The film itself however does not frezze only the inhabitants in it freeze.It`s all relative.If you were IN the film ,time would stand still from the perspectives of the actor`s"TIME".From the viewer`s point of view the film appears to have halted,but a creepy sensation sets in that it all may be an allusion!.Like nature itself the film is also timeless.Many words and scenes are repeated just as nature repeats and recycles as it changes.Many enigmas abound throughout. See this lovely allegorical masterpiece now!Movie Review: Symphony for the senses....
Summary: 5 Stars
This is such a mesmerizing film. I saw it in a poorly transfered, VHS copy, and I still loved it. I have the DVD, and it looks wonderful. This film is more on the lines of a symphony, a film of movements and feelings. There really is no logic to it, and anyone who really knows what happened is just fooling themselves. It's such a unique work, really unto itself, with nothing before it or after it to compare it too. I think Alain Resnais is a great filmmaker, and who is never really mentioned with the other great French filmmakers. Alain has made many great films, such as Night and Fog, Hiroshima mon Amour, and Mon Oncle d'Amerique. He is also the director of 2 "legendary, unseen" films called Melo and Providence. This is also Peter Greenaway's favorite film, and you can see its influence on its work with the fantastic, widescreen compositions and the amazing photography. This is really a great, cinematic puzzle, one that can be put together and taken apart over and over again.
Movie Review: The Most Perfect film I've seen yet
Summary: 5 Stars
The film is pure art, but shouldn't be dissected as such. This review is based only on my interpretation, and famously LYIM is open to infinite interpretations. Anyone can relate to X, who is so determined to relive this year endlessly just to convince his love oh so slightly that they had met and made plans for an affair, knowing that she will only run away and forget again and again. For love, he will play a game of destiny that seems impossible to win. The characters live in the frozen moments of their first meeting and reunion metaphorically invoking purgatory, life, death, etc, WHO CARES. The reason I know I will always place this film as the creme de la cinema is that every diehard filmgoer will have a very, very different reaction to this "story" but will have to feel the deep chord it strikes in the same wonderful and transcendant fashion. I wish I could give this film 10,000,000 stars!!! Perfertion!Movie Review: Timeless, classic, brilliant, unforgettable.
Summary: 5 Stars
Last Year At Marienbad is a brilliant, timeless work of poetry. There is no film to compare with this one. Is it a story about vampires? Is it just a love tale? Is it an afterlife narrative? Is it horror, is it drama, or is it science fiction? YES, to all questions. The answer is: Allain Resnais's and Grillet's film is a masterpiece in every respect that defies yet invites rigorous interpretation. Last Year At Marienbad defies genre and film conventions by breaking down spacial-temporal consistency. A physical "reality" is thwarted in favor of a psychological "realism"; a perpetual state of catachresis, whereby "reality's" misuse constitutes its full use and demonstrates it's audiences' states of mind.
Movie Review: Elusive film!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are looking for a lineal film beware with this artwork. A trio at a forlorn spa, a man who desperately attempts to lure a mysterious woman away with him. This picture works out at several levels , it demands your attention without any concessions. You have to build the complex web of allegoric symbols and narrative rapture. Hailed by international critics, you will love it or may be you don't but it will never you let you indifferent.
To me it a real masterpiece who demands from you to get immersed in Antonion films such L' eclisse, The Adventure and Le Grido.
A must for any serious and hard fan lover of the cinema. Art in its major expression!