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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. The screenplay is by Alain Robbe-Grillet.[1]
Plot
The film is set at an elite social gathering at a chateau. A man approaches a woman and asks “Didn’t we meet at Marienbad last year?” The woman is non-committal and demure. “Didn’t you say you would leave your husband and we would run away together?” he asks. Again, she says “No,” but they continue to talk as if they perhaps had indeed made plans. When a second man, who may be A’s husband, approaches, the conversation ends somewhat awkwardly and the characters move on.
As the film progresses, the relationship of the characters and the sequence of events are not made clear. Instead images and events such as the conversation above are repeated several times, but in different places in the chateau and its grounds. Several sequences involve the men at the chateau passing the time with various games (such as Nim and target shooting). There are numerous tracking shots of the chateau’s corridors, with ambiguous voiceovers.
