Thinking About Marienbad Again
Criterion’s new edition of Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad gave me the occasion to revisit the film, at a point in time when I was already hoping to do so. I’ve always seen Marienbad as one of the most unique of cinematic experiences; it makes viewers entirely conscious of the process of cinema while allowing them simultaneously to surrender to its larger mysteries, and, despite all the films since 1961 that imitate or parody it and the seemingly endless... Read More
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