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Film Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

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Stanley Kubrick, Michel Gondry, and even George Romero owe a debt to Alain Resnais' New-Wave classic Last Year at Marienbad. The film follows a nameless man (Giorgio Albertazzi) who is trying to convince a nameless woman (Delphine Seyrig) that they'd met the year before in the same opulent hotel — but the woman has no recollection of ever meeting him. The film is a cascading series of cryptic, nonlinear flashbacks that blur the line between truth and memory. Dark figures dance and play, repeating the same conversations as if merely going through the motions (like zombies?), while the frantic organ score and chiaroscuro lighting conjure a terrifying, beautiful mood.

– Gerry Mak

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