L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad)

by Jean-Louis Leutrat, Paul Hammond (Translator)

Overview

A quintessential work of 1960s European art cinema, L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad, 1961) was a collaboration between director Alain Resnais and 'New Novel' enfant terrible Alain Robbe-Grillet. Three people, known only by their initials, move through the sprawling luxury of a mysterious hotel and its ornamental gardens. Perhaps M is A's husband and X her lover. Perhaps, 'last year', A promised X she would leave with him. Or is there something more terrible in the past? An abstract thriller, a love story, a philosophical puzzle, 'the film's deviations are', for Jean-Louis Leutrat, 'as complex as those of the human heart'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781838716752
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	07/25/2019
Series:	BFI Film Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	72
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Jean-Louis Leutrat taught cinema history and aesthetics at the University of Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle, France. He wrote books on Jean-Luc Godard, Resnais, John Ford, and Jean Renoir.
Paul Hammond is a writer, painter and translator. He is the author of Marvellous Melies (1974), the compiler (with Ian Breakwell) of Seeing in the Dark: A Compendium of Cinemagoing (1990) and the editor of The Shadow and its Shadow: Surrealist Writing on the Cinema (1978). He lives in Barcelona.

Table of Contents

1. A Controversial Work
2. The Film's Background
3. The Genesis of the Film
4. A Description of the Film
5. The Two 'L'Année dernière à Marienbad'
6. 'L'Année dernière à Marienbad' and the History of Cinema
Notes
Credits
Bibliography