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Last Year at Marienbad

L'année dernière à Marienbad

1961

Alain Resnais

Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff, Françoise Bertin ...

7.4

5,350

Drama. Mystery. Romance A cinematic puzzle, Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad is a radical exploration of the formal possibilities of film. Beautifully shot in Cinemascope by Sacha Vierny, the movie is a riddle of seduction, a mercurial enigma darting between a present and past which may not even exist, let alone converge. The film stars Giorgio Albertazzi as an unnamed sophisticate attempting to convince a similarly nameless woman (Delphine Seyrig) that ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Profoundly mysterious and disturbing, a para-surrealist masterpiece whose nightmarish scenario appears to have been absorbed from Buñuel and Antonioni and transmitted onward to Greenaway."	POS
United States	Budd Wilkins Slant	"The poster child of cinematic modernism, one of those early-'60s event films that seemed to break every rule classical Hollywood ever codified."	POS
United States	Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"Remains one of cinema's glorious enigmas, endlessly compelling and intriguing."	POS
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"Obscure, oneiric, it's either some sort of masterpiece or meaningless twaddle."	NEU
United States	J. Hoberman Village Voice	"The movie is what it is -- a sustained mood, an empty allegory, a choreographed moment outside of time, and a shocking intimation of perfection."	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"Be prepared for an experience such as you've never had from watching a film"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"It is a deliberate, artificial artistic construction. I watched it with a pleasure so intense I was surprised (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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