Nov 17 2006


It is impos­si­ble to find an online clip of this movie, though rela­ti­vely easy to obtain a copy. So the video above is a fit­ting tri­bute in the form of a music video by Albarn’s Blur for the song “To the end”.

L’Année der­nière à Marien­bad’s plot is thus:

In a huge, old-fashioned luxury hotel a stran­ger tries to per­suade a married woman to run away with him, but it seems she hardly remem­bers the affair they may have had (or not?) last year at Marienbad.

That plot desc­rip­tion paints the fea­ture as a sim­ple tale yet it is one of the stran­gest and most mys­te­rious of movies you will ever lay your eyes upon and one which is enti­rely ori­gi­nal; the grace and finesse of its laby­rinthine plot shall be end­lessly fas­ci­na­ting, eerily sump­tuous and will irre­co­ve­rably haunt you fore­ver­more,; come full circle — last year at Marienbad?

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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