event Last Year At Marienbad

French New Wave director Alain Resnais helped semi-popularize the notion of formalism as an end in itself with the 1961 art-house sensation Last Year At Marienbad, a sumptuous enigma that has beguiled and irritated film buffs in equal measure for nearly 50 years. With its stubborn lack of answers and willful defiance of interpretation, Last Year At Marienbad is presented by its creators as a puzzle that doesn’t demand to be solved, but should rather be admired for the splendid curves of its individual pieces. The thin scenario, by author Alain Robbe-Grillet, stems from Giorgio Albertazzi reminding Delphine Seyrig of an affair she claims to have forgotten.

French New Wave director Alain Resnais helped semi-popularize the notion of formalism as an end in itself with the 1961 art-house sensation Last Year At Marienbad, a sumptuous enigma that has beguiled and irritated film buffs in equal measure for nearly 50 years. With its stubborn lack of answers and willful defiance of interpretation, Last Year At Marienbad is presented by its creators as a puzzle that doesn’t demand to be solved, but should rather be admired for the splendid curves of its individual pieces. The thin scenario, by author Alain Robbe-Grillet, stems from Giorgio Albertazzi reminding Delphine Seyrig of an affair she claims to have forgotten.