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Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

Original title: L'Année dernière à Marienbad

dir: Alain Resnais

This uniquely French film is set at an elite social gathering at a chateau. A man approaches a woman and indicates to her that they met the year before at Marienbad and is convinced she is "waiting here" for him. Through deeply psychological symbolism and a clever narrative and provocative language, did they meet or was it a fantasy or is it now fantasy? Was the woman seduced by the man now and in the flashbacks, or is it the viewing audience alone that is slowly seduced through the use of the narrative and imagery?

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9 stars

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7 stars

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9 stars

magb magb wrote about Last Year at Marienbad

If any movie ever deserved to be described as "dreamlike", it's this one. Its crazy abstractness and open-endedness makes it possible to interpret in a million different ways. My favorite interpretations are (SPOILERS): 1) the people are the statues come to life; and 2) X is aware of the fact that he is in a movie, and is, throughout the course of the film, trying to convince A of this.

10 stars

FitFortDanga FitFortDanga wrote about Last Year at Marienbad

An intriguing and extraordinarily beautiful film. I don't think I've ever seen any movie toy with time and space so freely. It speaks volumes about the nature, the texture, of romance in all its stages. I also got a bit of a Jean Renoir vibe from it, a mockery of bourgeois customs and attitudes.

10 stars

Stain Stain wrote about Last Year at Marienbad

One of the finest and least accessible art films I've ever seen. Be warned that you are not likely to "get it" unless you've been into weird alternative films for a long time

10 stars