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Aka L'Année Dernière à Marienbad. Perhaps the epitome of the postwar European art film, Resnais toys with time and image in his film, conflating chronology to the point of obscurity in his meditation on the uncertainty of knowing and the vagaries of memory. From Alain Robbe-Grillet's script. 'Did we meet last year in Marienbad?'

 

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Director Alain Resnais
Starring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi

 

Genre World Cinema

 

Country France Language FRENCH   Year 1961

 

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Digitally re-mastered print; Documentary 'In the Labyrinth of Marienbad'; Introduction by film critic Ginette Vincendeau; Short film by Alain Resnais: Toute La Memoire du Monde; Trailer; Mono Sound.

 

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Certificate U   Length 94 mins   Label OPTIM
Cat No OPTD0132   Format DVD   Black & White
Region2   Aspect 2.35:1 Anamorphic widescreen
Subtitles English.

 

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Review by Howard Schumann on 2nd March 2005

For most continental Europeans Last Year In Marienbad's position as a high point in art-house cinema has never been disputed. A teasing yet profound exposition of the way in which the other-worldliness of dreams and sub-conscious thought can often reveal more truths about the state of relationships than any wide-awake rationalisation can ever achieve.

For English speaking audiences reaction to 'Last Year..' has always been a little more mixed. Whilst many subscribe to the view that Alain Renais' 1961 film is a masterwork in the canon of a great film-maker others remain unconvinced that Last Year In Marienbad is anything more than an over extended vanity exercise that ends up mired in it's own pretentiousness.

Perhaps British and American are a little more wary of being taken for a ride by intellectual charlatanism or it could be they are all too aware that European directors, even great ones, can sometimes succumb to self indulgence on, very often, monumental scales (look at virtually any Goddard movie from 1968 to the late 80s for proof of this).

Whatever the reasons, Last Year In Marienbad, probably has as many detractors as admirers this side of the Channel.
It also has the distinction of being the film made by a Nouvelle Vague director to get a mention, albeit mispronounced, in the BBC series 'Steptoe and Son'. During yet another argument about Harold's social aspirations Albert dismissively observes "You're always trying to make out how clever and sophisticated you are with the birds. I mean look at that lah-di-dah film you took that poor girl from the fish shop to see last week, that what-was-it? - Last Year In Mirienbad, gawd strewth!"

What Albert was expressing was a long held strain of British derision for intellectualised art in general and intellectualised French art in particular. And, to be fair to dear old Albert Steptoe, the film is a little over laden with cinematic conceits.

But, 40 years on, Last Year In Marienbad continues to beguile audiences with it's coolly detached geometric aesthetic and a beautifully enunciated logic (or anti-logic, if you prefer).

This is a movie that can be recommended to those who are happy to be challenged by cinema. The rewards from this film are, in my view, worth the effort.

So there you are, some will love it, others may take a wholly different view. For the naysayers, it may come as some comfort to know that Harold didn't get the girl!

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