I don't know, I don't want to pretend

Vicenta 2022-04-19 09:02:37

[Last year in Marienbad] L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961)

Director: Alain Resnais

Screenwriters: Alain Resnais, Alain Robbe-Grillet, etc.

Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff, etc.

Country: France/Italy

I don't quite understand, but after reading the film review, I initially understood it as a film about "memory" and "thinking".

Thinking back to this moment a year ago, jumping from place to person, I had to pause to think, think about relationships, think about past hobbies, and think about how that period of time was spent. Using thinking to find memories must be jumping and fragmented.

Some people say that this is a literary film in a literary film. If the definition of a literary film is a lot of soundtrack narration, about uncertain and vague events, and the audience is like a fog, it is really ridiculous.

In contrast, I prefer to define this film as a film about philosophy.

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Extended Reading
  • Martine 2022-03-20 09:02:23

    The characters are stiff like statues, and the dramatic walking positions are reminiscent of Dreyer's "Ge Chu". Godard's "Contempt" borrowed a lot from the multi-angle moving camera shooting around the statue. Between the lens and the lens, time and space are misaligned, and this misalignment is also intensively expressed in a long lens. Repeated monologues or the same actions become the only way to connect.

  • Sam 2022-03-22 09:02:28

    Happy to see it again on the big screen. Let the Buddha enter a beautiful and mysterious dream, don't try to do any analysis, just enjoy the feeling of being lost.

Last Year at Marienbad quotes

  • [X wanders through the hotel's corridors cataloging items he sees]

    X: 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.

  • X: I must have you alive. Alive, as you have already been every evening, for weeks, for months.

    A: I have never stayed so long anywhere.

    X: Yes, I know. I don't care. For days and days. Why don't you still want to remember anything?

    A: You're raving! I'm tired, leave me alone!