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Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Overlooked Pictures
English - February 05, 2021 05:40 - 1 hour - 106 MB - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsTV & Film Arts criticism films sociology analysis commentary humanities movies philosophy pictures psychology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Jules: Alain Resnais' and Alain Robbe-Grillet's L'année dernière à Marienbad has astonished viewers for six decades and counting. Who, or what, are ‘A - la femme brune' (Delphine Seyrig), ‘X - l’homme à l'accent italien' (Giorgio Albertazzi, and ‘M - l'autre homme au visage maigre, le mari' (Sacha Pitoëff), and is this landmark of world cinema merely a film, or an initiatory experience akin to a rite of passage?
David: This film, both modern is its experimentation and postmodern in its self-reference, provides a meandering dream-like experience of unresolved narrative, unanswered questions, effects divorced from causes and a frustrating, potentially infuriating trap for the unwary viewer.