L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad)
Author | : Jean-Louis Leutrat |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781838716752 |
ISBN-13 | : 1838716750 |
Rating | : 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: A quintessential work of 1960s European art cinema, L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad, 1961) was a collaboration between director Alain Resnais and 'New Novel' enfant terrible Alain Robbe-Grillet. Three people, known only by their initials, move through the sprawling luxury of a mysterious hotel and its ornamental gardens. Perhaps M is A's husband and X her lover. Perhaps, 'last year', A promised X she would leave with him. Or is there something more terrible in the past? An abstract thriller, a love story, a philosophical puzzle, 'the film's deviations are', for Jean-Louis Leutrat, 'as complex as those of the human heart'.