“Be prepared for an experience such as you’ve never had from watching a film when you sit down to look at Alain Resnais’ LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD.”
—The New York Times
“Formally severe and utterly modernist … The characters move like somnambulists through a hermetically sealed world that seems totally surreal.”
—Sense of Cinema
“The film feels like a thriller where we are not waiting to find out what happens but what a character will say has happened and whether anyone will believe him or her.”
—The Guardian
This enigmatic narrative, written by Alain Robbe-Grillet and directed by Alain Resnais, was one of the most impactful art films of the ’60s, setting a tone of sexy, stylish inscrutability that still echoes through the halls of cinephilia to this day. In it, a nameless woman, played by Delphine Seyrig (DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS), is haunted by a similarly anonymous man (Giorgio Albertazzi), who insists that the pair shared a rich history together, which she has no memory of.