L'Annee derniere a Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad) BFI Film Classics

This book is an examination of the European art cinema piece "l'Anne derniere a Marienbad", a collaboration between director Alain Resnais and "enfant terrible" Alian Robbe-Grillet. An abstract thriller and love story, this book attempts to show that the movie's deviations are a philosophical puzzle. "A quintessential work of 1960s European art cinema, L'Annee derniere a 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.'"--Jacket 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'. Three people, known only by their initials, move through the sprawling luzury of a mysterious hotel and its ornamental gardens. Perhaps M is A's husband and X her lover. Or is there something more terrible in the past At the time of its release L'Annee derniere a Marienbad had its fierce critics as well as its staunch supporters.