Last Year at Marienbad

L’année dernière à Marienbad

Memory, desire and perception are challenged in this iconic film puzzle from the director of Hiroshima mon amour.

  • Director

    Alain Resnais

  • With

    Giorgio Albertazzi, Delphine Seyrig, Sacha Pitoëff

  • France-Italy 1961. 93min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    U

  • English subtitles

Alain Resnais was a central figure in the Left Bank group, the more experimental and literary-fused off-shoot of the French New Wave. In his enigmatic film puzzle, a man meets a woman at a gathering at a strange grand chateau and attempts to convince her that they have met before and even shared a romance. Striking visuals, gliding camera movements and fractures in time create one of the most unforgettable and intoxicatingly surreal dreamscapes in cinema.

Kimberley Sheehan

The screening of Last Year at Marienbad on Tuesday 6 January will be introduced by film critic Phuong Le.