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Update · Alain Resnais’LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD
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Friday, May 17 – Thursday, May 23
ONE WEEK
NEW 4K RESTORATION
WINNER, GOLDEN LION 1961 VENICE FILM FESTIVAL
(1961) As ominous organ music resounds, the Scope digicam tracks via the seemingly limitless halls of a baroque grand lodge, as Giorgio Albertazzi tries to steer an initially disbelieving Delphine Seyrig (in robes by Chanel – Coco herself!) that they’d met the yr earlier than, even because the sepulchral Sacha Pitoëff hovers about. But as Albertazzi continues to repeat “Last year…,” every encounter takes place in numerous areas, in numerous costumes, the alterations not simply coming from scene to scene however from shot to shot, amid truly mounting suspense, till the query turns into not solely did it occur, however was it seduction or…? Perhaps the last word puzzle movie, with dizzying time shifts and flashbacks, actual or imagined. Oscar-nominated screenplay by nouveau roman titan Alain Robbe-Grillet. DCP restoration. Approx. 93 min.
Presented with help from the George Fasel Memorial Fund for Classic French Cinema.
A RIALTO PICTURES RELEASE
Reviews
“One of the strangest artifacts of cinema history…no other film has affected fashion as deeply.”
– Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
“A gorgeous puzzle box of a movie!”
– Mark Harris, The New York Times
“The movie is what it is – a sustained mood, an empty allegory, a choreographed moment outside time, and a shocking intimation of perfection.”
– J. Hoberman
“Highly seductive… a masterpiece of masterpieces!”
– Jonathan Rosenbaum
“The Finnegans Wake of the movies! I can’t remember a film of more sustained visual delight.”
– Dwight MacDonald
“I was not prepared for the voluptuous quality of Marienbad, its command of tone and mood, its hypnotic way of drawing us into its puzzle, its austere visual beauty.”
– Roger Ebert