Last Year at Marienbad

Program:

Retrospective program "Century"

Year:

1960

Country:

France, Italy

Genre:

Fiction

Duration:

90'

In a large international hotel with a sumptuous but austere decor – a marble universe with gold paneling, statues and stiff servants – the rich, anonymous, idle clientele circulates observing, seriously but without passion, the strict laws of the game of chance, of dance, of wordly conversation or of pistol shots... Alain Resnais centenary

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Alain Resnais

Alain Resnais (1922–2014) was an internationally acclaimed film director, associated with both the Left Bank Group and the Nouvelle Vague, whose unforgettable images have become part of the fabric of film history. His preoccupation with the themes of time, memory and history, and his dazzling exploration of cinematographic technique, made him one of France’s most distinctive and influential filmmakers for over 60 years.

Filmography: On connaît la chanson (1997), Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980), Hiroshima mon amour (1959), etc.

Creative team

Director

Alain Resnais

Screenplay

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Camera

Sacha Vierny

Editing

Jasmine Chasney, Henri Colpi

Production design

Jacques Saulnier