Pros: cinema for cinemas-sake Cons: viewer interpretation overrides film sense
A Post-Modern masterpiece, at its core Last Year at Marienbad revels in the enigmatic quality of the simple lost-love plot that the cinematic narrative hangs on. If your gray cells get clogged and you feel a headache coming on, then ditch the logical ...
Pros: Thought-provoking, demanding work, superior and imaginative cinematography. Cons: For Cartesians, a nightmare.
Memory has thus three different aspects: memory when it remembers things, imagination when it alters or imitates them, and invention when it gives them a new turn or puts them into proper arrangement and relationship. For these reasons the ...
Pros: Highly original and enigmatic film with great sets and costumes Cons: Will frustrate those who demand such basics as a linear storyline or evident meaning
Historical Background: The French New Wave of the late 1950’s and 1960’s self-consciously invented itself as a challenge to the mainstream conventions of filmmaking. It questioned both the technical habits of the cinematography of the ...
Writer Alain Robbe-Grillet and director Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad has been an acquired taste for me. I first saw it when I was about 16, and it might have been too early: as much as I was fascinated by the images that unfolded in front ...
Pros: Brilliant, though-provoking, one-of-a-kind work of art Cons: None
Man, am I excited. I was just browsing through the TV Guide and I noticed that the cable channel TCM (Turner Classic Movies) is showing Alain Resnais' "Last Year at Marienbad" (1961) this Friday at 6:00 p.m. PST.
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