Last Year at Marienbad
L’année dernière à Marienbad
Synopsis
Part mystery, part fever dream, and possibly a ghost story, Last Year At Marienbad follows a married woman, A, and a man, X, through the empty rooms of a luxurious, baroque hotel that time forgot. X tries to persuade the incredulous A that they met in the same place the year before.
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Awards & Festivals
Venice Film Festival
1961 | Winner: Golden Lion
2018 | Venice Classics
Academy Awards
1963 | Nominee: Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen
I saw this lush experimental movie at least three times the week it opened at the Carnegie Hall Cinema, when I was a college sophomore, and was as smitten as anyone. I still am. But I don’t think Marienbad’s effect on me would have been as powerful if I hadn’t spent most of my childhood soaking up commercial movies, just as Resnais did.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
May 01, 2008
Hopelessly retro, eternally avant-garde, and one of the most influential movies ever made (as well as one of the most reviled), Marienbad is both utterly lucid and provocatively opaque—an elaborate joke on the world’s corniest pickup line and a drama of erotic fixation that takes Vertigo to the next level of abstraction.
J. Hoberman
January 08, 2008
Decomposing and recomposing in his elaborate cutting and splicing, he reinvents and elaborates upon the basic synthetic innovations of Lev Kuleshov, revived in the supremely exacerbated montage of Last Year at Marienbad, whose conjunction of assertive editing with the long and sinuous tracking shot pivoted upon the disjunctive match in a paradoxical articulation of a seamless continuity of subjectivity and the world.
Annette Michelson
June 01, 1973
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