Last Year at Marienbad

Film exercise by Alain Resnais concerning what happened to three people at a baroque hotel. Obscure and difficult; requires enormous patience and attention. Pictorially and technically superb., Alain Resnais’ award-winning drama set in a baroque hotel where Giorgio Albertazzi attempts to persuade Delphine Seyrig, who is with Sacha Pitoeff (who may or may not be her husband), that they had an affair the previous year., This experimental New Wave film features stunning imagery, while deliberately avoiding conventional plot and character development. At an elegant European resort, a man encounters a woman and claims they met at a spa the previous year. But the woman, who is accompanied by another man, responds with apparent bewilderment., Film exercise by Alain Resnais concerning what happened to three people (Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff) at a baroque hotel. Obscure and difficult; requires enormous patience and attention. Pictorially and technically superb.