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7.9/10   4,621 votes
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Director:

Alain Resnais

Writer:

Alain Robbe-Grillet (scenario and dialogue)

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Release Date:

7 March 1962 (USA) more

Genre:

Drama | Romance more

Plot:

In a huge, old-fashioned luxury hotel a stranger tries to persuade a married woman to run away with him... more | full synopsis

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations more

NewsDesk:
(6 articles)

Martyn’s Top Ten Disturbing Films
 (From FilmShaft.com. 17 September 2009, 4:40 AM, PDT)

Tiff #3: Some of the films I've seen
 (From Roger Ebert's Blog. 11 September 2009, 7:28 PM, PDT)

User Comments:

Meandering & trance-like more (81 total)


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Also Known As:

L'anno scorso a Marienbad (Italy)
Last Year at Marienbad (USA)
Last Year in Marienbad (UK)
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Runtime:

94 min

Country:

France | Italy

Language:

French

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Cocinor more


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"Marienbad" is the German name of the spa town Mariánské Lázne, Czech Republic. more

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Revealing mistakes: Exterior night scenes were shot day-for-night, but the sky and reflections of it were allowed in the frame, and they appear as bright white instead of black. This may have been intentional to emphasize the surreality of the film. more

Quotes:

[X wanders through the hotel's corridors cataloging items he sees]
X: Empty salons. Corridors. Salons. Doors. Doors. Salons. Empty chairs, deep armchairs, thick carpets. Heavy hangings. Stairs, steps. Steps, one after the other. Glass objects, objects still intact, empty glasses. A glass that falls, three, two, one, zero. Glass partition, letters.
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Movie Connections:

Featured in Dans le labyrinthe de Marienbad (2005) (V) more


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16 out of 25 people found the following comment useful.
Meandering & trance-like, 22 November 2000
9/10
Author: Afracious from England

This mysterious film shows us a man and a woman in an extravagant and capacious hotel. The man insists that he had an affair with the lady last year in Marienbad (or was it somewhere else?) The woman denies it, and just wants the man to leave her alone. Perhaps the man did meet her, perhaps he didn't. Resnais puts the pieces there and lets us take what we can from it.

The beautiful looking establishment, complete with gardens of splendour, is an eerie setting for the film. The guests seem like they are in a trance most of the time. A card game is shown where a man cannot be beaten, he claims. The cinematography is brilliant. Dark, then white, giving a blinking effect at times; and constantly switching between different locations. The music throughout the film sounds like it's from an old church organ. I can understand why this film will put off some people, because it doesn't explain much, and does meander at a pedestrian pace. But approached in the right mood, and watched in a dark room, this is a film to appreciate. Peter Greenaway thinks so; the film was influential in the making of The Draughtsman's Contract, and is (supposedly) the film Greenaway most admires.

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