Monday, December 26, 2011

Last Year At Marienbad (1961)

This surreal film directed by Alain Resnais takes place at a beautiful French chateau. Among the guests is a man (Giorgio Albertazzi) who approaches a woman (Delphine Seyrig) and claims that they met last year at a similar resort.  He tells her that they planned to run away together after meeting again this year. The woman denies all this saying that she has never seen him before. Also present is a man who may the woman's husband (Sacha Pitoeff). He challenges the stranger many times to a game called Nim; a challenge that he always will win. Does the mysterious guy really have a claim on this woman or is he making it all up as part of his seduction of her?

 Available: Netflix, Amazon

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