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Last Year at Marienbad is a french film of genre Drama directed by Alain Resnais released in USA on 25 may 1961 with Delphine Seyrig
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
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Add to a movie listL'Année dernière à Marienbad (released in the US as Last Year at Marienbad and in the UK as Last Year in Marienbad) is a 1961 French film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet.
The film is famous for its enigmatic narrative structure, in which truth and fiction are difficult to distinguish, and the temporal and spatial relationship of the events is open to question. The dream-like nature of the film has both fascinated and baffled viewers; many have hailed the work as a masterpiece, while others find it incomprehensible.
Synopsis
At a social gathering at a château or baroque hotel, a man approaches a woman. He claims they met the year before at Marienbad and is convinced that she is waiting there for him. The woman insists they have never met. A second man, who may be the woman's husband, repeatedly asserts his dominance over the first man, including beating him several times at a mathematical game (a version of Nim). Through ambiguous flashbacks and disorienting shifts of time and location, the film explores the relationships among the characters. Conversations and events are repeated in several places in the château and grounds, and there are numerous tracking shots of the château's corridors, with ambiguous voiceovers. The characters are unnamed in the film; in the published screenplay, the woman is referred to as "A", the first man is "X", and the man who may be her husband is "M".Actors
Delphine Seyrig
(A – The Brunette Woman)
Sacha Pitoëff
(M – The Other Man with the Lean Face, The Husband)
Françoise Bertin
(A Character from the Hotel)
Luce Garcia-Ville
(A Character from the Hotel)
Françoise Spira
(A Character from the Hotel)
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