Last Year at Marienbad

A landmark that showed what cinema can do when not tied down by plot To unravel the narrative tangle of such a singular film means to reflect about the so-called meta-narrative. Alain Resnais intentionally produced a strange as well as superb fusion between form and content. Any movie lover must remain ecstatic before his images, because of the many, continuous and never accidental findings that give rise to an undeniable rhetoric full of meanings. Why am I invited to walk through those corridors and gardens? The point is that I surrender to the evidence that I feel absolutely abducted, fascinated by mere transiting travelling through rhythmic codas, repeated voice-over in fragmentary ways, and the Baroque sets that accompany them, with show more the camera always in motion, always in a very clear direction. All this features a kind of aesthetic invitation whereby Resnais shocks us by contrasting the lavish to the staging of the inane . The sublime and the abysmal merge into each frame, physically and spiritually, immutably, defying the rules of reason and time. show less