Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Absolutely Fantastic

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

best film ever made, absolute symmetry, time wise and space wiseIt is like an artistic interpretation of quantum physics.A love is going on in a mysterious hotel where the events repeat themselves, each time a different way...best film ever made, absolute symmetry, timewise and spacewise. Just watch it. If you are patient you will get it..This film is only appropriate for mathematicians or architects, or both and whoever has the gift to watch it and appreciate it.I have to submit 10 lines but I have no further comments, that is it. Enjoy it Watch it Recollect.

The surrealistic cinema has several classic and icons, and this movie is one of the best from this genre (if not the best). The film tells a apparently simple story of a men (The names of the characters are never revealed) who is spending time in a luxury hotel trying to convince a woman that they had a romantic relationship last year at Marienbad, but she claims that she did not have a relationship with him. Much of the film is a man trying to convince a woman that they had a relationship last year, to make her remember, he uses memories (or not) of last year, which may be true or false, everything depends on the viewer's point of view. The film blends past and present in order to confuse the viewer and also to show that the past is so present than the actual.Despite being a rather confusing movie, one of the messages that can be extracted from the film is about the repression of feelings and desires. The performances are great,and the writing and directing of this movie are amazing, most part of the movie is very tense. Even though decades have passed, the film can still be interpreted in various ways and still intriguing, is way this and many classics are icons. "Last Year at Marienbad" is an intriguing and confusing film, but above all is a masterpiece that will never be forgotten.

Art reaches its peak when it becomes self-conscious. Movie-wise, the best example is perhaps Fellini's "8 1/2". In this strict sense, "Marienbad" might be Resnais' "8 1/2". A character becomes self-conscious about his own character-nature and tries to drag another character out of the château (out of the movie itself) where they've been trapped for more than a year (two years? a decade? since 1961?).Every time one watches "Marienbad", those same characters meet again, and one of them is already sick of the same rooms and the same greyness. They're like statues, frozen in time. Time, indeed, doesn't matter, as the narrator puts it. The woman's dress is "dark, perhaps black" because how can he tell, if he's stuck in a 2D black & white, endless, repetitive avant-garde flick? The "husband" always wins the game - he warns people about it, he knows he's been winning all this time and will continue to win, as long as people keep watching. Each time you hit the play button, that guy adds more wins to his resume, and another photograph is added to the collection inside the lady's drawer.Surely this is only one among countless other possible interpretations. The plot may be also/mostly a contemplation on memory or cheating partners. But "Marienbad" contains, still, this layer of self-awareness, like the characters could almost sense there's a camera and a viewer somewhere: ghosts watching their eternal existence, they themselves fearful of being no more than ghosts, trying to escape the inevitable, and perversely making us see/remember that our existence is not really that different from theirs.

This French language film was one featured in the book of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, from director Alain Resnais (Night and Fog), but like most of the other titles I had no clue about what it would entail, so I was hoping at five stars out of five it would be worthy of the honour. Basically at a château or baroque hotel a social gathering is taking place, a man, referred to as 'X' (Giorgio Albertazzi) approaches a woman, referred to as 'A' (Delphine Seyrig). He claims that had met before previously a year ago at Marienbad, he is also convinced that she has come to the event intentionally as she was waiting for him, but she says that have never met before. Her husband, referred to as 'M' (Sacha Pitoëff), tries to stop the man from bothering his wife, and challenges him in a mathematical game and beats him several times, but he seems to be correct as the film delves into flashback sequences as he describes past meetings. That is all I can say really, I think maybe because the characters had no names, and the story going backwards and forwards in time it was perhaps a little confusing. But the camera winding through various corridors, the use of voice overs and the scenes between the two lead characters are interesting enough, from what I can remember it was a watchable drama. It was nominated the Oscar for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen, and it was nominated the BAFTA for Best Film from any Source. Good!