LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD | Art House Cinema (1945-2000)
Schedule
Mon, 29 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63117 | Richmond Heights, MO
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Join us this fall for our series in collaboration with Washington University, ART HOUSE CINEMA 1945-2000, a look at international films shown in U.S. art house cinemas from 1945 to 2000, with a special focus on the role of music in shaping their impact and reception. With special introductions for all screenings by Todd Decker, Professor of Music and Film and Media Studies at Washington University, experience the films from a college-level film history course—no homework, just great cinema! https://hipointetheatre.org/film-series/art-house-cinema/Alain Resnais, 95m, 1961, French with English subtitles
Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Françoise Bertin, Giorgio Albertazzi, Luce Garcia-Ville, Sacha Pitoëff
In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before. Not just a defining work of the French New Wave but one of the great, lasting mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais’ epochal Last Year at Marienbad (L’année dernière à Marienbad) has been puzzling appreciative viewers for decades. Written by radical master of the New Novel Alain Robbe-Grillet, this surreal fever dream, or nightmare, 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-filled château 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.
“The movie is what it is – a sustained mood, an empty allegory, a choreographed moment outside time, and a shocking intimation of perfection.”
– J. Hoberman
“Highly seductive… a masterpiece of masterpieces!”
– Jonathan Rosenbaum
“I was not prepared for the voluptuous quality of MARIENBAD, its command of tone and mood, its hypnotic way of drawing us into its puzzle, its austere visual beauty.”
– Roger Ebert
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1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63117, 1005 McCausland Ave, St Louis, MO 63117-1924, United States, Richmond HeightsEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
