French New Wave, Curated By Richard Linklater

LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD

Directed by Alain Resnais

France/Italy, 1961, 1h 34min, DCP

French New Wave, Curated By Richard Linklater

There are no current or future screenings planned for this film.

“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.

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