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	Floating Amidst the Indeterminacy of Recall
		Last Year at Marienbad is a complex expression of this “duel,” an exemplary manifestation of the “dual” practices which calcify as words into our memory and our history.
		Last Year at Marienbad enacts on a narrative level the prolific consequences of a lack of fixity in memory and history.
		We could read memory in Last Year at Marienbad as being individual (‘This is what I recall of the past’) and history as being social (‘This is what we agree happened’).
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	Last Year at Marienbad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		"Last Year at Marienbad" is not a popular film, as it ignores all the rules of narrative fiction and the established Hollywood dramaturgy that today’s mass audiences expect.
		"Last Year at Marienbad" is sometimes described as "the story of a persuasion"--the story of a man who attempts to convince a woman of the reality of certain past events, and thereby to persuade her to elope with him.
		"Last Year at Marienbad" does not tell a story about uncertain memories and conflicting feelings, but is a deliberately incoherent composition of materials gathered from conventional triangle stories and the fantasies of their readers and viewers.
	faculty.frostburg.edu /phil/forum/Marienbad.htm (3732 words)

	"Last Year at Marienbad" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The architecture of the castles was similarly structured, and it is in this geometrical sort of artificial paradise that the triangle plot of "Last Year at Marienbad" unfolds.
		The man with the slight foreign accent, who tries to lure the woman away from her husband and the histrionic life of the baroque resort hotel, is an outsider--a rebel against the formal conventions, ritual conversations, and lifeless parlor games that kill the time of the fl tie crowd.
		"Last Year at Marienbad" may be a strictly inside view of a world where even a rebellion against its confines becomes a measured ritual, a ballet, a piece of ceremonial theatre like the drama that the hotel guests see at the beginning of the film.
	faculty.frostburg.edu /phil/forum/PhilFilm2.htm (451 words)

	kamera.co.uk - film review - Last Year in Marienbad (L' Année dernière à Marienbad) directed by ...
		Last Year in Marienbad (1961) is quintessential art cinema, and arguably no other film has produced such a critical or theoretical reaction, but nearly 45 years later it still infuriates as much as it fascinates.
		She is approached by a man, X (Giorgio Albertazzi), who claims they had a relationship here the previous year and had arranged to meet now in order to go away together.
		Marienbad has been long overdue on DVD but the extras are excellent for fans both old and new.
	www.kamera.co.uk /reviews_extra/last_year_in_marienbad.php (744 words)

	Film/Classic: Last Year at Marienbad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		"Last Year at Marienbad" is remarkably stylized and mesmerizing.
		While some critics have found "Last Year at Marienbad" pretentious, cryptic and infuriating and suggest it might be a satire on the indulgences of the vacuous rich, it is far too complex and challenging to be so easily dismissed.
		Despite its perplexing vagaries, "Last Year at Marienbad" is a rapturous love story, a mind-boggling mystery, an abstract, stately and sensational tour de force of filmmaking.
	www.thecityreview.com /lastyr.html (1923 words)

	Last Year at Marienbad: An Intertextual Meditation
		Last Year at Marienbad buries its association with its "low brow" science fiction text; nevertheless, they are relatives all the same.
		Though it is cloaked in formal solipsism, Last Year at Marienbad does more than secretly allude to The Invention of Morel, though allusions abound in what turns out to be a veritable tangle of texts, a Borgean labyrinth of a library.
		As a last dying gasp of modernism, it is in desperate denial regarding its true intertextual nature.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/00/10/marienbad.html (3465 words)

	L'année dernière à Marienbad/Last Year at Marienbad (1961) - Alain Resnais
		At a baroque resort, an unnamed man "X" tries to convince an unnamed woman "A" that they had an affair last year and agreed to meet at the resort and leave her current paramour "M".
		It is famous for its enigmatic narrative structure, in which truth and fiction are difficult to distinguish, and the exact temporal and spatial relationship of the events is open to question.
		Marienbad is a town in the Czech Republic, but the movie was actually filmed at the Nymphenburg palace, Munich, Germany.
	www.jahsonic.com /Marienbad.html (507 words)

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		What that means is that time-wise the first scene is the last (or most recent) and the last scene is the first (or oldest).
		In "Marienbad" the principal character, X (Giorgio Albertazzi) tries to deny that the woman he had an affair with the year before is dead.
		The story is essentially the re-creation of the past in the mind of X. Because X does not want to admit to himself that she's dead (because of the guilt he feels regarding her death) he constructs a fantasy out of fragmented facts.
	www.epinions.com /content_70753947268 (1406 words)

	Last Year At Marienbad
		In this baroque crypt with its sculptured portals and glittering chandeliers, mirrors that multiply and corridors whose intersections lead to chance encounters, you realize this is a machine whose real function is yet to be discovered.
		There's the shooting incident, for example, which could be in 1928 -- the year synchronous sound came to film -- or in 1922 judging by the feathered flapper costume worn by A when she is shot on her bed by M.
		The entire sequence is in the style of silent film, yet how it fits with "last year" at this hotel is difficult to reconcile.
	www.culturecourt.com /F/NewWave/LYMB2.htm (979 words)

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		The three, according to their dress, are contemporaries of the 1960's who are staying (or existing) at a Baroque palace/hotel amidst a group of formally dressed guests.
		From the time X meets the mysteriously attractive A, he tries to convince her that they had met last year and that she promised to go away with him in one year's time.
		In `Marienbad,' Robbe-Grillet treats time as a flat, planar element, not a linear one.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Academy/7909/Marienbad.htm (973 words)

	Last Year at Marienbad : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Last Year at Marienbad, written by Alain Robbe-Grillet, manages to achieve this same emptiness in film.
		The entire plot of Last year in Marienbad focuses on the question of whether two people did or did not meet the previous year and have an affair.
		A man at a resort confronts a woman regarding a promise made last year at the same place that she would leave her husband and run away with him.
	www.pagenation.com /an/630318426X.html (1451 words)

	Amazon.com: Last Year at Marienbad: Video: Alain Resnais,Delphine Seyrig,Giorgio Albertazzi,Sacha Pitoëff,Françoise ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Last Year at Marienbad is a "love story," although not a "story" in the conventional narrative sense, since the fragmented images cannot be scanned chronologically.
		Marienbad is a cine-roman, a cinematic novel, that is, a particular way to tell a story, which by definition involves space and time.
		Marienbad is lyrical, but by its framings, has the precision of a documentary, undermining the cinematographic writing and heralding the future films of Duras, Robbe-Grillet, or Jean-Luc Godard.
	www.amazon.com /Last-Year-Marienbad-Alain-Resnais/dp/630318426X (2775 words)

	Nim in the Last Year at Marienbad screenplay
		X's last phrase is spoken in a voice that has grown a little remote, as though neutralised by distance and dreaming.
		Resembling this last shot of the broken glass on the floor, there is then a shot of a round table (the poker table) with the poker chips scattered across it, suggesting the pieces of glass in their arrangement.
		In fact, the singleton token in the last row seems to be associated with A, as in the end of section 2.
	plambeck.org /archives/Marienbad.html (2937 words)

	Last Year at Marienbad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		L'année dernière à Marienbad (translated as Last Year in Marienbad in the UK and Last Year at Marienbad in North America) is a 1961 French movie directed by Alain Resnais, starring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff.
		A man (Man A) approaches a woman (Woman) at some indefinite chateau and asks "Didn't we meet at Marienbad last year?" the woman is non-commital and demure.
		Marienbad (Mariánské Lázně) is a town in the Czech Republic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Last_Year_at_Marienbad (922 words)

	CollectingChannel.com News Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In March, Alain Resnais' cinematic triumph, Last Year at Marienbad, winner of the 1961 Venice Film Festival, became available in DVD (Fox Lorber) format for $20.95.
		But the true Rosetta Stone to understanding Last Year At Marienbad is a science-fiction novel which was unfamiliar to American critics in 1961 because it had not yet been translated into English: Bioy Casares' The Invention of Morel (1940), one of the masterpieces of Latin American literature.
		Last Year at Marienbad is available from Dominator's UK Widescreen Video List for $15.99; the price is $19.95 from Scorched Earth [Box 101083, Denver, CO 80250]; and it can be rented from Pittsburgh's Heads Together/Bookworm [412-521-3700].
	www.collectingchannel.com /cdsDetArt.asp?CID=33&PID=2792 (924 words)

	Last Year at Marienbad - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Last Year at Marienbad - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Last Year at Marienbad, motion picture about three characters who meet at a French luxury hotel, written by Alain Robbe-Grillet and directed by...
		New Year’s Day, first day of the year, January 1 in the Gregorian calendar.
	encarta.msn.com /Last_Year_at_Marienbad.html (134 words)

	The DVD Forums - Last Year At Marienbad? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Marienbad has always struck me a visually beautiful but emotionally empty - the sort of cerebral shenannigans that Robbe-Grillet indulged in his novels.
		Marienbad is brilliant, however, and if a decent transfer appeared, I would snap it up.
		Marienbad is Robbe-Grillet through and through, but hence its genius - "For a New Novel"/use of an objective narrative.
	www.thedvdforums.com /forums/printthread.php?t=70555 (1724 words)

	Last Year in Marienbad (1961)
		X thinks he met A last year in the garden at Fredericksburg, although she is unable to remember him.
		They agreed they would meet again in one year's time to see if his love for her was strong enough to wait or if she would have forgetten him.
		He thinks he met her last year in a hotel at Fredericksburg, or it could have been at Marienbad or Baden-Salsa, he isn't sure.
	www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/marienbad.htm (1275 words)

	DVD Talk Review: Last Year at Marienbad (British Release) (Region 2)
		Filmed against a spectacular background of repetitive music tunes the quest of the main protagonist to rationalize a dream (and the presence of a woman his heart desires) Last Year at Marienbad is a stunning representation of one director's vision of cinema as the highest form of artistic expression.
		After Last Year at Marienbad nothing was as artistically-refined yet intellectually stimulating as this fl and white extravaganza from the early 1960s.
		Last but not least the print has been transferred progressively and seen with the proper equipment the impressive cinematography of Resnais' work truly shines.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=22600 (1021 words)

	- Alain Resnais Last Year in Marienbad Fox / Lorber (Out Of Print) - Region 0 - NTSC vs. Optimum - Region 2 - PAL Alain ...
		(aka "L'Année dernière à Marienbad" or "L'Anno scorso a Marienbad" or "Last Year in Marienbad")
		Following this is the documentary "Dans le Labyrinthe de Marienbad" by French critic Luc Lagier, who discusses the films history, the collaboration between Renais and Robbe-Grillet, its structure, various interpretations and finally its legacy.
		The last extra is the rare "Toute la Mémoire du Monde", a short film by Renais from 1956, a documentary about Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, where Renais portraits the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous alien being.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDCompare11/last-year-at-marienbad.htm (721 words)

	Marienbad -- from Wolfram MathWorld
		Last Year at Marienbad (L'année dernière à Marienbad, 1961).
		In Marienbad, two players alternately draw counters from one of four nim-heaps formed by 1, 3, 5 and 7 counters.
		Since the nim-value of this game is zero, the second player can always win, which makes Marienbad a distinctly unfair game.
	mathworld.wolfram.com /Marienbad.html (113 words)

	Last Year At Marienbad
		Last Year At Marienbad (L'Annee Derniere Marienbad, 1961) dir.
		If you strip it down, remove it from the isometrics of its neo-medieval imagery, it's simply a story of a woman who returns to a hotel one year after a previous visit to rendezvous with a lover in compliance with an agreement, or...
		In this sense, it's typical of the European art film of the time, where image composition and stasis are the filmmaker's natural inclination due to his classical education in the museums and gallerys.
	www.culturecourt.com /F/NewWave/Marienbad1.htm (1025 words)

	L'année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad)
		Marienbad has one of those structures that are clear enough in their own terms, yet vague enough in meaning to suggest all kinds of allegorical signification (and to lead scoffers to dismiss it as “meaningless twaddle” (2)).
		Because the novel takes place through the prism of Humbert's mind, and because it is overpowered by his words, his brilliance, his poetry, it is easy to miss Vera Nabokov's advice to “stop searching for symbols and focus instead on Lolita's helplessness, her pathetic dependence on a monster, her heartrending courage” (8).
		As the narrative progresses, as X persists in forcing his memories on A, in creating her as a figment of his subjectivity, in prying into her inner life, in stifling her voice (at one point stopping her laugh; “women's laughter is subversive” (9)), she becomes increasingly resistant, calling him insane, and trying to get away.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/04/33/last_year_at_marienbad.html (1441 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies :: Last Year at Marienbad (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Incredible to think that students actually did stand in the rain to be baffled by it, and then to argue for hours about its meaning--even though the director claimed it had none.
		I hadn't seen ``Marienbad'' in years, and when I saw the new digitized video disc edition in a video store, I reached out automatically: I wanted to see it again, to see if it was silly or profound, and perhaps even to recapture an earlier self--a 19-year-old who hoped Truth could be found in Art.
		He desperately wants to believe he met A last year at Marienbad, and that she gave him hope--asked him to meet her again this year.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990530/REVIEWS08/905300301/1023 (1236 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Last Year At Marienbad [1961]: DVD: Giorgio Albertazzi,Delphine Seyrig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In Alain Resnais's masterwork, L'ANNEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD, each fantasy laden, heavily dramatised, aesthetically perfected scene is dictated by the memories of a man (Giorgio Albertazzi), who is one of many elegant, aristocratic guests vacationing at the enchanting resort, Marienbad.
		'Last Year at Marienbad' followed Alain Resnais' prior works concerned with memory and spatial-time, the documentary 'Night & Fog' and 'Hiroshima Mon Amour.' As with 'Hiroshima...' we have a male and female couple at the centre of things- though Resnais collaborates with a different author to Margaret Duras, the oblique writer Alain Robbe-Grillet.
		The "story" is quite confounding - simple yet ambiguous : in a vast baroque hotel a man (X) attempts to entice a woman (A) into an affair away from another man (M)- persuading her that they met the previous year at Marienbad (or was it Frederickbad?).
	www.amazon.co.uk /Last-Year-Marienbad-Giorgio-Albertazzi/dp/B0007SMDCS (916 words)

	Last Year In Marienbad - DVDs & VHS - MovieMail UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Whilst many subscibe to the view that Alain Renais' 1961 film is a masterwork in the canon of a great film-maker others remain unconvinced that Last Year In Marienbad is anything more than an over extended vanity exercise that ends up mired in it's own pretentiousness.
		Whatever the reasons, Last Year In Marienbad, probably has as many detractors as admirers this side of the Channel.
		But, 40 years on, Last Year In Marienbad continues to beguile audiences with it's coolly detached geometric aesthetic and a beautifully enunciated logic (or anti-logic, if you prefer).
	www.moviemail-online.co.uk /films/7429 (1675 words)

	Last Year At Marienbad (1962) : Directed by Alain Resnais, reviewed by Nick Burton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Resnias and Robbe-Grillet have constructed a film that plays like a surreal, languid dream where the narrative is presented in broken shards of memories and fantasies, presented often out of sequence, where any explanation of the mysterious events on the screen may suffice.
		While it's tempting to read the film as Albertazzi's seduction of Serying by imagining elaborate fantasies for her, it has also been suggested that Albertazzi is death, come to collect Seryig after a year's reprieve.
		Renasis' camera slowly tracks through the dead elegance of the idle rich, carefully posed like mannequins, who if not actually dead, are living in a kind of social purgatory of their own making where even their memories have been blurred by their seemingly eternal ennui.
	www.pifmagazine.com /SID/356 (209 words)

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