- Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff
- Director: Alain Resnais
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Rating: Unrated
- Running Time: 1 hr. 34 mins.
- Release Date: June 23, 2009
SYNOPSIS:
Not just a defining work of the French New Wave but one of the great, lasting mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais’ epochal Last Year at Marienbad (L’année dernière à Marienbad) has been puzzling appreciative viewers for decades. Written by radical master of the New Novel Alain Robbe-Grillet, this surreal fever dream, or nightmare, gorgeously fuses the past with the present in telling its ambiguous tale of a man and a woman (Giorgio Albertazzi and Delphine Seyrig) who may or may not have met a year ago, perhaps at the very same cathedral-like, mirror-filled château they now find themselves wandering. Unforgettable in both its confounding details (gilded ceilings, diabolical parlor games, a loaded gun) and haunting scope, Resnais’ investigation into the nature of memory is disturbing, romantic, and maybe even a ghost story.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
· New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Alain Resnais
· New audio interview with Resnais, recorded exclusively for this release
· New documentary on the making of Last Year at Marienbad, featuring interviews with many of Resnais’ collaborators
· New video interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau on the history of the film and its many mysteries
· Two short documentaries by Resnais: Toute la mémoire du monde (1956) and Le chant du styrène (1958)
· Original theatrical trailer and Rialto’s rerelease trailer
· New and improved English subtitle translation
· PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Mark Polizzotti and a section on Alain Robbe-Grillet’s evolving attitude toward the film, including the author’s introduction to the published screenplay and comments by film scholar François Thomas
· New audio interview with Resnais, recorded exclusively for this release
· New documentary on the making of Last Year at Marienbad, featuring interviews with many of Resnais’ collaborators
· New video interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau on the history of the film and its many mysteries
· Two short documentaries by Resnais: Toute la mémoire du monde (1956) and Le chant du styrène (1958)
· Original theatrical trailer and Rialto’s rerelease trailer
· New and improved English subtitle translation
· PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Mark Polizzotti and a section on Alain Robbe-Grillet’s evolving attitude toward the film, including the author’s introduction to the published screenplay and comments by film scholar François Thomas
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