Last Year at Marienbad (Blu-ray)

Directed by : Alain Resnais
Available Date : 08/20/2019
Release Year : 1961
Running Time : 95
UPC : 738329237363
Country : France
Language: French
Subject : Film and Media Studies - Classic Cinema
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Last Year in Marienbad (1961) is a hypnotically beautiful puzzle box of a film, and one of the most influential in history. Alan Resnais's sensuous tracking shots and Delphine Seyrig's iconic Chanel gowns have become part of the cinematic lexicon, and can now be seen in a gorgeous 4K restoration from StudioCanal. In a large international hotel in the European resort town of Marienbad, with a sumptuous but austere décor-a marble universe with gold paneling, statues, and stuff servants-the rich, anonymous, idle clientele circulates. A man (Giorgio Albertazzi) is convinced he met an enigmatic woman (Seyrig, Jeanne Dielman) the previous year at the same location, and perhaps had a flirtation. A second man (Sacha Pitoëff, Inferno), possibly the woman's lover or husband, repeatedly intimidates the first man. Their relations unfold through flashback shards that never quite fit into place, their lives a hall of mirrors that never reveal a true self.

Nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards and Nominated for the Best Film at the BAFTA Awards. Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Product Extras :

-Audio commentary by film historian Tim Lucas
-Trailers
-Booklet essay by Vanity Fair film critic K. Austin Collins
-Interview with filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff
-Last Year at Marienbad A to Z, a visual essay by James Quandt, programmer for the TIFF Cinematheque
-Memories of Last Year at Marienbad, a making-of doc using Super-8 footage shot on set
-Toute la mémoire du monde (1957), a short film by Alain Resnais

Publish Date : 2019-07-23
UV Canada Link : https://unobstructedview.com/last-year-at-marienbad-blu-ray-kin23736-web.html
  • Alain Resnais - Director
  • Alain Robbe-Grillet - Writer
  • Delphine Seyrig - Actor
  • Giorgio Albertazzi - Actor

Reviews

"Remains one of cinema's glorious enigmas, endlessly compelling and intriguing."
"To even talk of a story is nonsensical, since a central aesthetic of the film involves the effects of fantasy, time and subjective memory on human consciousness. Marienbad takes place in a heightened, sci-fi nightmare world where knowing, believing"
"A pioneering, essential work of arthouse cinema that remains as enrapturing and illusive as ever."

"Marienbad is elegantly hermetic, a ravishing waxworks that has stillness at its heart."

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