LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD
Special Features: New 4K Restoration
[L'ANNÉE DERNIÈRE À MARIENBAD]
"Haven't we met somewhere before?" an urbane man (Giorgio Albertazzi) asks a stunning woman (Delphine Seyrig) during a chic gathering at a baroque château. And he keeps asking her, politely but persistently, throughout the mansion's plush interiors, its mirrored walls and marble statuary, across the game tables of its casino, and outdoors in the mazelike garden that warps space like a Giorgio de Chirico painting. Their question-and-answer games play out through increasingly dreamlike sequences and disorienting segues, jumping back and forth in time, the man pushing for seduction and the woman seeming to bend — or is it the other way around? In her first leading role, Seyrig looks gorgeous styled in Coco Chanel, who later advertised her signature fragrance in a memorable 1980s television commercial inspired by the film. DIR Alain Resnais; SCR Alain Robbe-Grillet; PROD Pierre Courau, Raymond Froment. France/Italy, 1961, b&w, 94 min. In French with English subtitles. NOT RATED
4K restoration from the original negative by Studiocanal at Hiventy laboratory, with the support of CNC and Chanel.
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 94 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, May 03, 2024
Genre: Romance drama
