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Dominican Rep. Last Year at Marienbad
- Original title
- L'année dernière à Marienbad
- Year
- 1961
- Running time
- 91 min.
- Country
France- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Delphine Seyrig
Giorgio Albertazzi
Sacha Pitoeff
Françoise Bertin
Luce Garcia-Ville
Pierre Barbaud- Françoise Spira
- Jean Lanier
- Gérard Lorin
- Gilles Quéant
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- Music
- Cinematography
Sacha Vierny (B&W)- Producer
- Co-production France-Italy;
- Genre
- Drama. Mystery. Romance | Nouvelle vague (New Wave). Surrealism. Experimental Cinema. Cult movie
- Synopsis
- 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 they met and were romantically involved a year ago in the same enormous, baroque European hotel. In the end, it hardly matters -- they're not characters so much as pawns anyway. Hypnotically dreamlike, Last Year at Marienbad is a surrealist parody of Hollywood melodrama, a high-fashion romance with a dark, alien underbelly. According to screenwriter Alain Robbe-Grillet, the movie is a pure construction, without a frame of reference outside of its own existence -- the lives of its characters begin when the lights go down, and conclude when they come back up. - Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
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- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1962: Oscar: Nominated for Best Original Screenplay1962: BAFTA Awards: Nominated to Best Film1961: Venice Film Festival: Golden Lion - Best Film1961: French Critics Awards (Syndicate of Cinema Critics): Best Film.1963: Hugo Awards: nominated to Best Dramatic Presentation.
- Critics' reviews
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"Remains one of cinema's glorious enigmas, endlessly compelling and intriguing."
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"The movie is what it is -- a sustained mood, an empty allegory, a choreographed moment outside of time, and a shocking intimation of perfection."
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"Obscure, oneiric, it's either some sort of masterpiece or meaningless twaddle."
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 61 My Favorite French Movies (55)
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