Event

LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD

Sunday Schmooze
Hot Bagels @ 10am; Film @ 11am
Guest Speaker: Vic Skolnick, CAC Co-director

For those who seek challenging ideas and images, Last Year at Marienbad is a veritable feast for the mind and eyes. Directed by Alain Resnais, written by Alain Robbe-Grillet, shot by legendary cinematographer Sacha Vierny, and starring the remarkable Delphine Seyrig. The film creates a dream-like reality that mirrors the different memories of a man and woman at a luxurious European resort. The man insists that they had met a year earlier and made plans to rendezvous. Now, he wants her to run away with him. However, she doesnt remember that. Resnais and his collaborators weave a mesmerizing meditation on the subjectivity of memory. Resnais reality is surreal and stunningly beautiful. That Resnais is a film artist with his feet on the ground, consider his terrifying Holocaust film Night and Fog, which was shot in black and white, revealing the deserted remains of Auschwitz. One of the great classics of 1960s French Cinema, Last Year at Marienbad has long been out of circulation. The Cinema is pleased to present this dazzling masterpiece in a beautiful new restored 35mm print.

France, 1961, 94 min., b/w