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Unseen Classic Film 16/52: Alain Resnais’s LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (1961)

The most art house-iest of art house films, this movie has been called a masterpiece & derided as pretentious nonsense. Understandable, since LYAM takes everything we expect from a movie and makes them entirely unfamiliar.
12:44 PM - Apr 24, 2023
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In response to Warren Shaver.
The plot is relatively straightforward: Rich people in a palatial hotel watch a man try to help a woman remember her promise to run off with him a year earlier. But time melts away. Scenes are replayed with minor changes. And rooms alter depending on the emotional state of the characters.
12:45 PM - Apr 24, 2023
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In response to Warren Shaver.
Is this a love story, a murder mystery, a rape fantasy—or something else entirely? To my mind, the pervasive sense of dislocation makes LYAM a surprisingly moving and haunting ghost story. Of course, your mileage may vary.

#Movies #classic
12:46 PM - Apr 24, 2023
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