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Film details
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Featuring
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Countries
France Italy
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Year
1961
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Genres
Romance Drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- L' Année dernière à Marienbad Original French
- Last Year in Marienbad Alternative
- L' Anno scorso a Marienbad Alternative Italian
Introduction
“A highly seductive parable about seduction, it oscillates ambiguously between past, present, and various conditional tenses, mixing memory and fantasy, fear and desire.”
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader, 1997
Following the international acclaim for Hiroshima mon amour (1959), scripted by Marguerite Duras, Alain Resnais returned with an enigmatic film puzzle that has had critics and audiences arguing over its meaning (or lack of) ever since.
Continuing his affiliation with experimental Nouveau Roman writers, Marienbad is based on a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet about a man, ‘X’, who meets a woman, ‘A’, at a gathering at a grand chateau and attempts to convince her that they met the previous year, probably at Marienbad.
Featuring stately, gliding camera movements about the house and grounds, and a disconcerting fracturing of time which seems to collapse past and present, Resnais’ film weaves an intoxicatingly surreal atmosphere that comes as close as cinema has ever done to the logic of a dream.
The ghost of Marienbad lingers on in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980), a haunted hotel story in which the caretaker may have been there before.
Cast & Credits
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voice of English Introduction
Alan Edwards (uncredited)
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Credits
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Direction:
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Director
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1st Assistant Director
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2nd Assistant Director
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2nd Assistant Director
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Script Supervisor
Production:
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Production Company
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Production Company
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Presents
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Production Manager
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Unit Manager
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Additional Unit Manager
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Production Secretary
Writing:
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Screenplay and Dialogue
Photography:
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Director of Photography
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Camera Operator
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1st Assistant Camera
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Gaffer
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Key Grip
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Key Grip
Stills:
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Still Photographer
Editing:
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Editor
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Editor
Design:
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Art Director
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Assistant Art Director
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Assistant Art Director
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Set Decorator
Costumes:
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Costumes
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Ms [Delphine] Seyrig's Wardrobe
Make-up:
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Key Make-up
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Make-up Artist
Titles:
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Titles and Opticals
Film processing:
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Laboratory
Music:
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Music
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Organist
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Orchestra Conductor
Sound:
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