Last Year at Marienbad
Last Year at Marienbad, released in the United Kingdom as Last Year in Marienbad, is a 1961 French New Wave avant-garde psychological drama film directed by Alain Resnais and written by Alain Robbe-Grillet.
Plot
In an ornate baroque hotel populated by wealthy individuals and couples who socialize with one another, a man approaches a woman and claims they met the previous year at a similar resort (possibly Frederiksbad, Karlstadt, Marienbad, or Baden-Salsa) and had an affair. He asserts that she responded to his request to run away together by asking him to wait a year. The woman, however, insists she has never met the man. He attempts to remind her of their shared past, while she rebuffs him and contradicts his accounts. Between interactions with the woman, a second man, who may be her husband, asserts his dominance over the first by repeatedly defeating him in a game of Nim.
Awards
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| author | Alain Robbe-Grillet |
|---|---|
| award | Golden Lion |
| director | Alain Resnais |
| editor | Henri Colpi Jasmine Chasney |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | baroque baroque architecture build end mariánské lázně marienbad nim run away voice-over |
| musicBy | Francis Seyrig |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay International Submission to the Academy Awards |
| producer | Pierre Courau Raymond Froment |
| productionCompany | Argos Films Cineriz Cinétel Como Films Les Films Tamara Precitel Silver Films Société Nouvelle des Films Cormoran Terra Film |
| publisher | Cineriz Cocinor |
| recordedAt | Bavaria |
| theme | avant-garde and experimental narrative psychological drama |