L'Année dernière à Marienbad)(L'Anno scorso a Marienbad)
(Last Year at Marienbad)
France-Italy (1961): Drama/Mystery/Romance
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. (Argos, Cinétel, et al./Astor Pictures Corp.) (Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide)
1 nomination
· Writing (Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen) 1962: Alain Robbe-Grillet