film and architecture section: Last Year at Marienbad (L'Année dernière à Marienbad) by Alain Resnais, architecture and film appreciation

category: Architecture and Film (The Bartlett University syllabus) (click HERE for syllabus)
film index: 20

film: L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad)
director: Alain Resnais
writers: Alain Robbe-Grillet
production: France
release: June 25, 1961
playtime: 94 mins
visual: BnW
Language: French
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Genre: drama, romance, thriller
Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff
size: 1442 mb

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In a huge, old-fashioned luxury hotel a stranger tries to persuade a married woman to run away with him, but it seems she hardly remembers the affair they may have had (or not?) last year at Marienbad.

The film is famous for its enigmatic narrative structure, in which truth and fiction are difficult to distinguish, and the temporal and spatial relationship of the events is open to question. The dream-like nature of the film has fascinated and baffled audiences and critics, some hailing it as a masterpiece, others finding it to be incomprehensible. Among the notable images in the film is a scene in which two characters (and the camera) rush out of the château and are faced with a tableau of figures arranged in a geometric garden; although the people cast long dramatic shadows, the trees in the garden do not.

imbd link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0054632/
Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Year_at_Marienbad

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Monday, November 9, 2009

Last Year at Marienbad (L'Année dernière à Marienbad) by Alain Resnais, architecture and film appreciation

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