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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 film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet.
Last Year at Marienbad: Directed by Alain Resnais. With Giorgio Albertazzi, Delphine Seyrig, Sacha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin. In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.
May 30, 1999 · The film takes place in an elegant chateau, one with ornate ceilings, vast drawing rooms, enormous mirrors and paintings, endless corridors and grounds in which shrubbery has been tortured into geometric shapes and patterns. In this chateau are many guests--elegant, expensively dressed, impassive.
In this unconventional French drama, a group of unnamed aristocrats interact at a palatial château, resulting in an enigmatic tale told partially in flashback.
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Last Year at Marienbad. Not just a defining work of the French New Wave but one of the great, lasting mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais’ epochal Last Year at Marienbad ( L’année dernière à Marienbad) has been puzzling appreciative viewers for decades.
Summaries. In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before. At a weekend gathering, a man tries to convince a woman that they had met there and spent some time together the previous year.
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) In Alain Resnais’ infamous art-house teaser, from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet, a male guest at a chateau claims he met a woman there the year before.
