Last Year at Marienbad

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Robert P @Superbad 5 days ago Last Year At Marienbad is a 4.5 star Movie! See more Kyle M @RT77296778 Oct 5, 2026 An experimentally ambiguous narrative solidifying French filmmaker Alain Resnais’s dissective portrayal of memory as the defining "plot" element had become a form akin to a quietly enthralling artwork that immerses to ponder curiously over the underlying surrealism. To me, that strings spiritualism upon materialized projections routinely memorized when physically imprinting within a building’s silently talkative walls, whilst personally picking up conversational pieces that broadens the engaging imagery. (B+) See more Allan C @RT15713161 Feb 3, 2025 A masterpiece of atmosphere, but not emotions Last Year at Marienbad (1961) AKA L'année dernière à Marienbad ***1/2 Last Year at Marienbad is a hauntingly beautiful puzzle, using fractured memories and hypnotic imagery to create one of cinema's great dreamscapes. Alain Resnais' formal precision is mesmerizing, even if the film's emotional distance and elusive narrative make it more intellectually fascinating than deeply involving. It's easier to admire than to love. SEE LETTERBOXED FOR FULL REVIEW See more Leaburn O @RT35452347 Jan 6, 2025 Stylish in a French art house way but tediously boring in a Drench art house way. Not for me. Watched on DVD. See more Dave S @RT68722908 Jan 22, 2024 How best to describe Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad? Maybe something along the lines of ‘as James Joyce's Ulysses is to literature, Last Year at Marienbad is to cinema' – incomprehensible and impossibly frustrating with countless moments of unimaginable brilliance. The plot, if that is in fact what it is, concerns a man trying to convince a woman that they had an affair one year earlier. However, don't knock yourself out trying to piece things together because it can't be done – anyone who tells you that they understand it is a liar. What makes it so special are the striking visuals – spectacular cinematography give that gives the film a dream-like quality. It's the lighting and tracking shots and blocking that make the movie so memorable. Don't try to analyze it, just let it wash over you and you might find it to be a rewarding experience. Or maybe not. See more Alec B @Alec97 Jan 3, 2024 As hypnotic as it is enigmatic. Once you stop trying to figure out what is happening and simply allow yourself to fall under the movie's spell it's infinitely rewarding. See more Read all reviews

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