Last Year at Marienbad

Director: Alain Resnais, Alain Robbe-Grillet

Overview

This experimental New Wave film features stunning imagery, while deliberately avoiding conventional plot and character development. At an elegant European resort, a man encounters a woman and claims they met at a spa the previous year. But the woman, who is accompanied by another man, responds with apparent bewilderment.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/20/2019
UPC:	0738329237356
Original Release:	1961
Rating:	NR
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[B&W, Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:34:00

Special Features

Audio Commentary by film historian Tm Lucas; Trailers; Booklet essay by Vanity Fair film critic K. Austin Collins; Last Year at Marienbad A to Z, A visual essay by James Quandt, programmer for the TIFF Cinematheque; Memories of Last Year at Marienbad, a making-of doc using Super 8 footage shot on set ; Toute la m?moire du monde (1956), a short film by Alain Resnais

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Delphine Seyrig	A - The brunette woman
Georgio Albertazzi	Actor,X
Sacha Pitoeff	M - The other man with the thin face
Francoise Bertin	A character from the hotel #1
Luce Garcia-Ville	A character from the hotel #2
Helena Kornel	A character from the hotel #3
Francois Spira	Actor,Actor
Karin Toeche-Mittler	Actor
Pierre Barbaud	A character from the hotel #5
Wilhelm von Deek	A character from the hotel #6
Jean Lanier	A character from the hotel #7
Gerard Lorin	A character from the hotel #8
Davide Montemuri	Actor
Gilles Queant	A character from the hotel #10
Gabriel Werner	Actor
Henri Colpi	Actor
Karin Toche-Mittler	Actor
Francis Seyrig	Composer

Technical Credits

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Pierre Courau	Producer
Raymond Froment	Producer
Alain Robbe-Grillet	Screenwriter

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Last Year at Marienbad
1. Along These Corridors [12:09]
2. Silence Worse Than Death [7:56]
3. Memories Of Frederiksbad [9:04]
4. In Dreams [13:09]
5. This Time Last Year [8:50]
6. Motionless, Afraid [9:24]
7. Time Is Unimportant [8:58]
8. Alive [8:02]
9. Photographs [9:35]
10. Lost Love [7:21]
11. Chapter 11 [:01]
0. Chapters
1. Chapter 1 [14:13]
2. Chapter 2 [14:27]
3. Chapter 3 [11:13]
4. Chapter 4 [11:13]
5. Chapter 5 [:01]
0. Chapters
1. Chapter 1 [16:56]
2. Chapter 2 [12:37]
3. Chapter 3 [18:41]
0. Chapters
1. Chapter 1 [21:55]

Menu

Disc #1 -- Last Year at Marienbad
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Chapters
Extras
Last Year at Marienbad A to Z, A Visual Essay by James Quandt, Programmer for the TIFF Cinematheque
Memories of Last Year at Marienbad, A Making-Of Doc Using Super 8mm Footage Shot on Set
Toute la Mémoire du Monde (1956), a Short Film by Alain Resnais
Trailers
Last Year at Marienbad
The Nun
La Prisonniêre
Setup
Audio
2.0 Mono
Audio Commentary by Film Historian Tim Lucas
Subtitles
English
Subtitles: Off

Editorial Reviews

One of the most enigmatic and distinctive movies ever made, this collaboration of director Alain Resnais with leading French novelist and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet has confounded and intrigued audiences since it first led the wave of European art movies in the early 1960s. Wandering through and around the story of a mysterious love triangle as it wanders through and around its hotel setting, the film can be interpreted, among other possibilities, as a parody of Hollywood romantic melodramas; as an effort to find a new way to tell a romantic melodrama, free of the clichés imposed by Hollywood; as a mystery, whose answer is finally unresolved and perhaps unresolvable; as, therefore, a Rashomon-like examination of the uncertainty of truth; as a philosophical inquiry into truth, time, memory, and personal identity; as a purely sensual melange of shapes and sounds -- grand architecture, striking compositions, and strange soundtrack elements; as a self-reflexive examination of cinema itself; or as a game, like the logarithm game at the center of the story, played by the filmmakers with the audience. Whatever interpretation(s) one favors, this is, for better or for worse, an unforgettable and unique movie, a high-water mark of postwar European art cinema.