As if "L'Année dernière à Marienbad" has been made with holiday film rushes. Shot in Venezia by Greenaway with a bolex, never showing water, structured to give the feeling that viewer goes back and forth through different layers of time, this astonishing short film already has the main characteristic of early Greenaway's works : ironic clash between fiction and documentary.
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A betrayed novel
13 January 2000
When Milan Kundera saw this movie, he decided from then on to write novels that nobody could turn into a film. The novel is partly constructed with non-narrative philosophical parts that brings an ironic distance from which your point of view as a reader slightly changes. Either this was impossible to adapt either Jean-Claude Carrière decided to ignore it, but this very important pattern in Kundera's work is totally absent from this flat adaptation of the events of the story.
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