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Last Year at Marienbad

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Last Year at Marienbad

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Summary

Drama starring Delphine Seyrig and Giorgio Albertazzi. In a large hotel, a man tries to persuade a woman that they had an affair the previous year. She is convinced they have never met.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

David Parkinson

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.

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7.6/10

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Cast

rolenameA / WomanDelphine SeyrigX / StrangerGiorgio AlbertazziM / Man / Husband or LoverSacha Pitoeff

Crew

rolenameDirectorAlain Resnais

Details

Theatrical distributor

BFI

Released on

2011-07-08

Languages

French

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Black and white

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