Criterion Collection: Last Year At Marienbad
a.k.a. L'Année dernière à Marienbad, Last Year at Marienbad
Director:
Alain Resnais
Cast:
Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff, Francoise Spira
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- DVD Release Date: 06/23/2009
- Original Release: 1961
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- Sales Rank: 6,520
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Features
Disc One: Original theatrical trailer and Rialto's rerelease trailer; Disc Two: Audio interview with Resnais; Documentary on the making of Last Year at Marienbad, featuring interviews with many of Resnais' collaborators; Video interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau on the history of the film and its many mysteries; Two short documentaries by Resnais: Toute la mémoire du monde (1956) and Le chant du styrène (1958)
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Disc #1 -- Last Year at Marienbad
1. "Along These Corridors" [8:35]
2. After the Play [3:39]
3. Conversations [2:29]
4. "I Can Lose, But I Always Win" [2:49]
5. "You Hardly Seem to Remember" [2:37]
6. "You Must Be Mistaken" [5:38]
7. In the Gardens at Frederiksbad [3:24]
8. "In Your Dreams?" [3:15]
9. A Broken Shoe [4:35]
10. A Broken Glass [5:19]
11. "Leave Me Alone" [4:21]
12. "Now You Are Here" [4:29]
13. "You Are Afraid" [4:56]
14. The Bedroom [4:28]
15. "It's Impossible" [4:16]
16. Uncertainty [:08]
17. A Photo [4:32]
18. Alive [4:00]
19. "That Room" [4:01]
20. "A Year isn't Long" [4:05]
21. "Alone With Me" [5:30]
22. Color Bars [7:19]
Disc #2 -- Last Year at Marienbad
1. A Happy Fourseome [6:31]
2. A Joyful Meeting of Minds [3:08]
3. Surrealist Tendencies/Character Psychology [5:09]
4. Rape Scene/Influences [5:09]
5. Cinematography/Editing [4:10]
6. Robbe-Grillet's Reaction [3:14]
7. Cannes and Venice [5:11]
Editorial Reviews
A cinematic puzzle, Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad is a radical exploration of the formal possibilities of film. Beautifully shot in Cinemascope by Sacha Vierny, the movie is a riddle of seduction, a mercurial enigma darting between a present and past which may not even exist, let alone converge. The film stars Giorgio Albertazzi as an unnamed sophisticate attempting to convince a similarly nameless woman (Delphine Seyrig) that they met and were romantically involved a year ago in the same enormous, baroque European hotel. In the end, it hardly matters -- they're not characters so much as pawns anyway. Hypnotically dreamlike, Last Year at Marienbad is a surrealist parody of Hollywood melodrama, a high-fashion romance with a dark, alien underbelly. According to screenwriter Alain Robbe-Grillet, the movie is a pure construction, without a frame of reference outside of its own existence -- the lives of its characters begin when the lights go down, and conclude when they come back up. Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
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