Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

Original title

L'Année dernière à Marienbad

Directed by

Alain Resnais

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany, France, Italy

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 546 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man approaches a woman at a grand hotel and insists they met a year ago, possibly starting an affair. The woman does not remember this. A second man who may be her husband watches them.

dreamlikeambiguousstylizedslow-pacedunsettlingcerebralhypnoticopaque

What happens

Last Year at Marienbad (French: L'Année dernière à Marienbad), released in the United Kingdom as Last Year in Marienbad, is a 1961 French New Wave avant-garde psychological drama film directed by Alain Resnais and written by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Set in a palace in a park that has been converted into a luxury hotel, the film stars Delphine Seyrig and Giorgio Albertazzi as a woman and a man who may have met the year before and may have contemplated or begun an affair, with Sacha Pitoëff as a second man who may be the woman's husband. The characters are unnamed. The film won the Golden Lion at 22nd Venice International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

• Le rendez-vous (1961)
• The Nina B. Affair (1961)
• Eclipse (1962)
• La Notte (1961)
• L'Amant de cinq jours (1961)
• Dark Journey (1961)
• The Menace (1961)
• Douce violence (1961)