Last Year at Marienbad ( L'Année dernière à Marienbad ) ( L'Anno scorso a Marienbad )

Last Year at Marienbad (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: L'Année dernière à Marienbad
Alternate Title: L'Anno scorso a Marienbad
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Oscar Academy Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1961 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Alain Resnais

Written By:
Alain Resnais
Adolfo Bioy Casares

Actors:
Delphine Seyrig ..... A/Woman
Giorgio Albertazzi ..... X/Stranger
Sacha Pitoëff ..... M/Escort/Husband
Françoise Bertin ..... Un personnage de l'hôtel
Luce Garcia-Ville
Héléna Kornel
François Spira
Karin Toche-Mittler
Pierre Barbaud
Wilhelm von Deek
Jean Lanier
Gérard Lorin
Davide Montemuri
Gilles Quéant
Gabriel Werner

Synopsis:

In a huge, old-fashioned luxury hotel a stranger tries to persuade a married woman to run away with him, but it seems she hardly remembers the affair they may have had (or not?) last year at Marienbad.

In Alain Resnais's masterwork, L'ANNEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD, each fantasy laden, heavily dramatised, aesthetically perfected scene is dictated by the memories of a man (Giorgio Albertazzi), who is one of many elegant, aristocratic guests vacationing at the enchanting resort, Marienbad. Because the story consists of foggy memories that may or may not be accurate, the film unrolls like a repetitious dream. In the opening sequences, the man describes the immensity and silence of the lavishly decorated baroque hotel as the camera roams its empty hallways. Soon after, the hotel guests appear, assembled for a theatre production inside the hotel. Like the actors in the play, the characters in the film make it obvious that they are also playing established roles and reciting lines. Sometimes they simply pose as the camera passes over them, while at other times, they stand like statues, trying to remember what happened last year. They amuse themselves with parlour games, ballroom waltzes, target practice in the shooting gallery, and strolls through the garden. Meanwhile, the man establishes the abstract plot about a love affair he began last year with a woman (Delphine Seyrig), reconstructed from his partial memories. She remembers nothing of the affair, not even the man's name. In fact, most of the guests cannot even recall the year in which these things might have happened--was it 1928 or 29

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 05 March, 2008.

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