Last Year at Marienbad: Difference between revisions

 

At a European chateau resort for the rich, a man runs into a woman whom he claims to have met before, specifically [[Title Drop|last year at the resort town Marienbad]]. She repeatedly denies this, although it is unclear if she is lying or not. Further complicating things is a second man (who may or may not be the woman's husband) who keeps finding ways to demean the first, particularly during repeated games of Nim.

It is worth noting that the movie is heavily self-referential: if you pay attention, a lot of what seems to come out of nowhere has either been subtly set up earlier, or ties into something later. It's extremely complex, and has a [[Love It or Hate It]] reputation even among art film fans.

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* [[Alien Geometries]]: Resnais shot the film in several different European castles, then edited it together in such a way as to create a disorienting, unclear sense of the scale and structure of the castle.

* [[The Beautiful Elite]]: The movie takes place at a castle resort for the extremely wealthy, what else did you expect?

* [[Le Film Artistique]]

* [[Mind Screw]]: And ''how''.

* [[Scenery Porn]]: The castle setting is as much a character as the actors, with lots of tracking and wide shots to take it all in.

 

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