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3 | ->''"For me this film is an attempt, still very crude and very primitive, to approach the complexity of thought, of its processes."'' |
4 | -->--'''Alain Resnais''' |
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6 | ''Last Year at Marienbad'' is a Surrealist 1961 French film written by Alain-Robbe Grillet and directed by Creator/AlainResnais. |
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8 | At a European chateau resort for the rich, a man runs into a woman (Creator/DelphineSeyrig) whom he claims to have met before, specifically [[TitleDrop last year at the resort town Marienbad]]. She repeatedly denies this, although it is unclear if she is lying or not. Further complicating things is a second man (who may or may not be the woman's husband) who keeps finding ways to demean the first, particularly during repeated games of Nim. |
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10 | [[MindScrew At least, that seems to be the plot.]] |
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12 | It is worth noting that the movie is heavily self-referential: if you pay attention, a lot of what seems to come out of nowhere has either been subtly set up earlier, or ties into something later. It's extremely complex, and has a polarizing reputation even among art film fans. |
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14 | !!Tropes Associated With This Movie |
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16 | * AlienGeometries: Resnais shot the film in several different European castles, then edited it together in such a way as to create a disorienting, unclear sense of the scale and structure of the castle. |
17 | * AllThereInTheScript: The characters are unnamed in the film; in the published screenplay, the woman is referred to with the letter "A", the first man is "X", and the man who may be her husband is "M". |
18 | * TheBeautifulElite: The movie takes place at a castle resort for the extremely wealthy, what else did you expect? |
19 | * BigFancyHouse |
20 | * ChekhovsArmoury: Nearly every single thing in the movie refers back to something else. |
21 | * CostumePorn: And lots of it. Tends to happen when one of your costumers is Coco Chanel. |
22 | * LeFilmArtistique |
23 | * FluffyFashionFeathers |
24 | * GameOfNim: TropeMaker. "M" describes it as "a game I always win", and "X" never figures out the trick. |
25 | * MindScrew: And ''how''. |
26 | * NoNameGiven: None of the main characters are given names. In the script, the woman is "A", the first man is "X" and the second is "M". |
27 | * RapeDiscretionShot: It seems to happen, maybe... it's not very clear. The man even tries to correct himself when he thinks about it. |
28 | * SharpDressedMan: Every last one of the men. |
29 | * ShoutOut: |
30 | ** At about the 13 minute mark you can see a stairwell where a cut-out of Creator/AlfredHitchcock is barely visible. |
31 | ** One scene of Delphine Seyrig lounging on the bed is a hommage to ''Film/{{Gilda}}'', using similar lighting and costume. |
32 | * SceneryPorn: The castle setting is as much a character as the actors, with lots of tracking and wide shots to take it all in. |
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