Last Year at Marienbad
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Movie Reviews of Last Year at Marienbad
Movie Review: It's Art.
Summary: 5 Stars
There's a game in this film which is played over and over. It's the most obviously fitting motif in this movie, which is a game in itself. A quite tricky one. Romors has it Resnais was playing a joke... This is a must for all movie lovers: The B&W Cinematography is one of the most tastefully Cinemascope filling material I've ever seen. Still, it's not only the camerawork, it's the narrative playfulness, and some clips where persons are transferred to another setting within a body movement... Nice. Of all the greatest films of the French New Wave, this is the most elegantly playful and mindtwisting I've seen. See it, and see it again.Movie Review: FOREVER AHEAD OF IT'S TIME
Summary: 5 Stars
There's not much that can be added to the praise this film has garnered. Peter Greenaway told me once "this film was the perfect collaboration between screenwriter and director". Greenaway, of course, used it's Cinematographer Sasha Verney for almost every film he made, until Sasha's death last year. Tis pity Fox Lorber didn't make this DVD 16:9 NOR did they use all of Robbe-Grillet's translated text, which ruins many points of them film. But my review isn't for a substandard pressing, it's for a brilliant film that was made to be appreciated not comprehended.Now if only someone would release the films Alain Robbe-Grillet directed...
Movie Review: The greatest film ever made
Summary: 5 Stars
To my mind, this film is the greatest film ever made -- the most aesthetically and philosophically profound and the one that makes the best use of the possibilities of the film medium for the expression of such content. I have given a more detailed analysis of the film through a review of a book about it in the journal Film-Philosophy. For those who haven't seen it, I do have one strong recommendation: watch it at least twice! It is so unconventional in its construction that it can take one whole viewing just for one's mind to grasp it and make sense of it, before appreciating it more fully the second time.Movie Review: smooth edit
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is one of the most captivating I've seen. To begin to interpret it in a conventional manner is not only impossible, but must be resisted. With incredible fluidity, the film undermines traditional methods of plot structure. Time, event, location become confused in an extremely interesting way. The editing techniques alone are masterfully executed. Not only are they intelligently conceived, but they are so fluid that they seem to have been executed through current technologies. One gets a window into the brillant minds of two auteurs, Resnais and Robbe-Grillet.Movie Review: gorgeous visuals, if you take away the subtitles...
Summary: 5 Stars
If I was a rich and idle person, I would have a giant screen in my living room playing Last Year At Marienbad on DVD, just as a permanent artistic background. Of course, I'd remove the subtitles: they are indeed too high up in the picture (thank you, nonsensical DVD producers.Didn't you think before you slapped on these absurd subtitles?..)and barely needed. I am not looking for meaning in this amazing movie: I am hypnotized by the stunningly beautiful frames, and softly conditionned by the French voices soundtrack...Oooh,the bourgeois charm of luxury ...