event Cinematheque: Last Year At Marienbad
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Fri Dec 11
7:30 pm
Cinematheque: Last Year At Marienbad at Vilas Hall
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.
Vilas Hall 821 University Ave., Madison, WI
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.
Updated 12/03/2009
