Last Year at Marienbad

LAnne dernire Marienbad released in the US as Last Year at Marienbad and in the UK as Last Year in Marienbad is a 1961 French film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Alain RobbeGrillet.

At a social gathering at a chteau or baroque hotel, a man approaches a woman. He claims they met the year before at Marienbad and is convinced that she is waiting there for him. The woman insists they have never met. A second man, who may be the womans husband, repeatedly asserts his dominance over the first man, including beating him several times at a mathematical game a version of Nim. Through ambiguous flashbacks and disorienting shifts of time and location, the film explores the relationships among the characters. Conversations and events are repeated in several places in the chteau and grounds, and there are numerous tracking shots of the chteaus corridors, with ambiguous voiceovers. The characters are unnamed in the film in the published screenplay, the woman is referred to as A, the first man is X, and the man who may be her husband is M.LAnne dernire Marienbad was created out of an unusual collaboration between its writer Alain RobbeGrillet and its director Alain Resnais. RobbeGrillet described its basis Alain Resnais and I were able to collaborate only because we had seen the film in the same way from the start, and not just in the same general outlines but exactly, in the construction of the least detail as in its total architecture. What I wrote might have been what was already in his mind what he added during the shooting was what I might have written. ...Paradoxically enough, and thanks to the perfect identity of our conceptions, we almost always worked separately. ........

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