  Last Year At Marienbad (1961) (Dvd)Last Year At Marienbad (1961) (Dvd)
UPC Number: 715515046213
Actors: Giorgio Albertazzi, Pierre Barbaud, Françoise Bertin, Luce Garcia-Ville, Helena Kornel
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: French
Number of discs: 2
Studio: Criterion
Release date: June 23, 2009
Run time: 94 minutes
Product Description
Not just a defining work of the French New Wave but one of the great, lasting mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais’ epochal visual poem has been puzzling appreciative viewers for decades. A surreal fever dream, or perhaps a nightmare, Last Year at Marienbad (L’ann�e derni�re � Marienbad), written by the radical master of the New Novel, Alain Robbe-Grillet, 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-bedecked ch�teau 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. DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: • New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Alain Resnais • New audio interview with Resnais • 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 m�moire du monde (1956) and Le chant du styr�ne (1958) • Theatrical trailer • Optional original, unrestored French soundtrack • New and improved subtitle translation • PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critic Mark Polizzotti and film scholar Fran�ois Thomas, and Alain Robbe-Grillet’s introduction to the published screenplay and comments on the film
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