L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad)

A quintessential work of 1960s European art cinema, "L'Année dernière à Marienbad "("Last Year in Marienbad", 1961) was a collaboration between director Alain Resnais and 'New Novel' "enfant terrible" Alain Robbe-Grillet. Three people, known only by their initials, move through the sprawling luxury of a mysterious hotel and its ornamental gardens. Perhaps M is A's husband and X her lover. Perhaps, 'last year', A promised X she would leave with him. Or is there something more terrible in the past? An abstract thriller, a love story, a philosophical puzzle, 'the film's deviations are', for Jean-Louis Leutrat, 'as complex as those of the human heart'. [Publisher's Text]