Last Year in Marienbad (1961) Trailer

Defining the words art film for a generation, Marienbad is every bit as extraordinary today as when it was premiered in Venice, 50 years ago this August. The plot is banal and, as in Hiroshima, the characters have no names. X (Albertazzi) pursues A (Seyrig) through the endless corridors of a luxury hotel, trying to persuade her that they met last year, while M (Pitoëff), who may be A s husband, looks on. But, in the eternal present of RobbeGrillet s screenplay, drenched in the organ score by Fra