Last Year at Marienbad
Friday, November 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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