 |
|
|
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
 |
 |
|
|
|
Penned by modernist writer Alain Robbe-Grillet, this is a complex cinematic riddle that broke all the rules of narrative film-making. Are Delphine Seyrig and Giorgio Albertazzi really reuniting a year after their first meeting or was she killed by her jealous husband, Sacha Pitoeff? Do the events take place only in Albertazzi's memory, or is it simply an erotic fantasy on Seyrig's part? The winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival and Oscar-nominated for its screenplay, Alain Resnais's film is a triumph of camera movement, symbolic décor, abstract structure and stylised playing. A veritable masterpiece, but beware, this icon of French New Wave cinema is as likely to irritate as it is to mesmerise. DP
|
Tell us what you think
Email us at rtfilmcomments@bbc.co.uk to tell us what you think of this film. Your comments may appear in Radio Times magazine.
|
Running time
|
90min
|
Country of origin
|
Fr / It
|
Genre
|
Drama
|
Alternate title
|
L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad,
Last Year in Marienbad
|
Original language
|
French
|
Screenplay
|
Alain Robbe-Grillet
|
Subtitling information
|
In French with subtitles
|
|
|
|
|
| awards information |
|
|
|
Award |
Category |
Name |
Nominee/Winner |
|
|
| Academy 1962 |
Writing (Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen) |
Alain Robbe-Grillet |
Nominee |
| BFAA 1962 |
Best Film from any Source |
|
Nominee |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
Film certification logos reproduced by kind permission of BBFC |
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
Radio Times is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
|
|
|
|
|
|
