The Most Perfect film I've seen yet | Last Year at Marienbad

Flawless for who understands this kind of cinema | Last Year at Marienbad | Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi

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	• Last Year at Marienbad Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi Hollywood Select Video, 1994 average customer review:based on 83 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Symphony for the senses....

This is such a mesmerizing film. I saw it in a poorly transfered, VHS copy, and I still loved it. I have the DVD, and it looks wonderful. This film is more on the lines of a symphony, a film of movements and feelings. There really is no logic to it, and anyone who really knows what happened is just fooling themselves. It's such a unique work, really unto itself, with nothing before it or after it to compare it too. I think Alain Resnais is a great filmmaker, and who is never really mentioned with the other great French filmmakers. Alain has made many great films, such as Night and Fog, Hiroshima mon Amour, and Mon Oncle d'Amerique. He is also the director of 2 "legendary, unseen" films called Melo and Providence. This is also Peter Greenaway's favorite film, and you can see its influence on its work with the fantastic, widescreen compositions and the amazing photography. This is really a great, cinematic puzzle, one that can be put together and taken apart over and over again.

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The Most Perfect film I've seen yet

The film is pure art, but shouldn't be dissected as such. This review is based only on my interpretation, and famously LYIM is open to infinite interpretations. Anyone can relate to X, who is so determined to relive this year endlessly just to convince his love oh so slightly that they had met and made plans for an affair, knowing that she will only run away and forget again and again. For love, he will play a game of destiny that seems impossible to win. The characters live in the frozen moments of their first meeting and reunion metaphorically invoking purgatory, life, death, etc, WHO CARES. The reason I know I will always place this film as the creme de la cinema is that every diehard filmgoer will have a very, very different reaction to this "story" but will have to feel the deep chord it strikes in the same wonderful and transcendant fashion. I wish I could give this film 10,000,000 stars!!! Perfertion!

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Flawless for who understands this kind of cinema

Hint: if you are expecting Hollywood-like entertainment this is not for you. Also, if you get dissapointed when things are not made 100% clear and are partly left to your power of imagination pass this one.

However, if you have a tooth for the artistic cinema this movie is one of the best ones ever made.

One of the most ferociously iconoclastic and experimental films of the French New Wave, Alain Resnais's 1961 feature, winner of the grand prize at that year's Venice Film Festival, is based on a script by Alain Robbe-Grillet. At its center is what seems to be a simple but unanswerable puzzle: Did its protagonist (Giorgio Albertazzi) have an affair the year before with a woman (Delphine Seyrig) he just met (or possibly re-met) at his hotel? The inquiry becomes an unsettling experiment in flattening the dimensions of past, present, and future so that any difference between them becomes meaningless, while Resnais's coldly formal but oddly dreamlike geometric compositions make space itself seem a function of subjective memory. Add to that Resnais's trademark tracking shots--long, smooth, a visual correlative of a wordless feeling--and this is a film that truly gets under the skin in almost inexplicable ways. One of the most influential works of its time. --Tom Keogh

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