France, Italy, 1961
94m
35mm film, black and white, 2.35:1
mono, French
A French fantasy film directed by Alain Resnais.
Plot Summary
In a strange hotel, a man meets a woman who insists that they have met before.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Alain Resnais
Cocinor present a Terra Film, Cormoran Films, Precitel, Como Films, Argos Films, Les Films Tamara, Cinétel, Silver Films, Cineriz co-production
Produced by: Pierre Courau, Anatole Dauman, Raymond Froment
Co-producer: Robert Dorfmann
Scenario and Dialogue by: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Director of Photography: Sacha Vierny
Editors: Jasmine Chasney, Henri Colpi
Music by: Francis Seyrig
Sound: Jean-Claude Marchetti, René Renault, Guy Villette
Costume Designer: Bernard Evein
Key Make-up Artist: Alexandre Marcus
Production Designer: : Jacques Saulnier
Cast
Delphine Seyrig (A )
Giorgio Albertazzi (X}
Sacha Pitoëff (M)
Françoise Bertin, Luce Garcia-Ville, Héléna Kornel, Françoise Spira, Karin Toche-Mittler, Pierre Barbaud, Wilhelm von Deek, Jean Lanier, Gérard Lorin, Davide Montemuri, Gilles Quéant, Gabriel Werner (people at hotel)
Alternative Titles
L’année dernière à Marienbad – Belgium (French)
El año pasado en Marienbad – Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay
O Ano Passado em Marienbad – Brazil
L’anno scorso a Marienbad – Italy
I fjol i Marienbad – Sweden
I fjor i Marienbad – Denmark, Norway
Geçen yil Marienbad – Turkey
Hace un año en Marienbad – Argentina (alternative)
Last Year at Marienbad – UK, USA
Letztes Jahr in Marienbad – Germany, West Germany
Perysi sto Marienbad – Greece
Tavaly Marienbadban – Hungary
O Último Ano em Marienbad – Portugal
Viime vuonna Marienbadissa – Finland
Een vorig jaar te Marienbad – Belgium (Flemish)
Zeszlego roku w Marienbadzie – Poland
B прошлом году в Мариенбаде – Russia
Πέρσι στο Μάριενμπαντ – Greece
Миналата година в Мариенбад – Bulgaria
Links
Extracts included in
1,001 Movies You Must See (Before You Die) (2014)
Dans le labyrinthe de Marienbad (2009)
Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing (2004)
Have You Seen My Movie? (2016)
My Year at Marienbad with Volker Schlondorff (2019)
Next Week in Bologna (2016)
References
Periodicals
- Adaptation vol.5 n2 (2012) pp.137-151 – article (‘Total cinema’, literature, and testimonial in the early films of Alain Resnais by M. Martin Guiney)
- Cahiers du Cinéma vol.21 no.123 (September 1961) – interview, review
- Chaplin no.27 (March 1962) p.75 – review
- Cinéaste vol.34 no.4 (Autumn 2009) pp.58-60 – DVD review (DVD Reviews – Last Year at Marienbad by Royal S. Brown)
- Cineforum no.24 (April 1963) p.309 – article
- Cineforum no.7/9 (September/November 1961) p.400 – review
- Cinema Nuovo vol.14 no.153 (September/October 1961) p.391 – review
- Cinema Universitario no.16 (1960) p.29 – review
- La Cinématographie Française no.1931 (9 September 1961) p.9 – review
- La Cinématographie Française no.1935 (7 October 1961) p.23 – review
- Cinémonde no.1411 (22 August 1961) p.6 – review
- Continuum vol.16 no.3 (November 2002) pp.299-310 – article (Time after theory: the cinema image and subjectivity by John Lechte)
- Creative Screenwriting vol.3 no.1 Summer 1996) pp.26-30 – article (Review essay: Marienbad revisited by Walter Kirsch Jr)
- The Daily Cinema no.8578 (26 February 1962) p.11 – credits, review
- Deutsche Film Kunst no.2 (1962) p.65 – review
- Empire no.192 (June 2005) p.173 – DVD review (RWD: Rewind Round-up by Alan Morrison)
- Empire no.228 (June 2008) pp.94-101 – illustrated article (True originals by Simon Crook et al)
- Film (BFFS) no.31 (Spring 1962) p.19 – review
- Film (BFFS) no.32 (Summer 1962) p.16 – review
- Film and Philosophy vol.1 (1994) pp.42-54 – article (Phantasy Projections of the Multiple Psyche in 8½ and LastYear in Marienbad by Graham Parkes
- Film Culture no.25 (Summer 1962) p.21 – article
- The Film Daily vol.122 no.94 15 (May 1963) p.11 – review
- Film Ideal no.115 (1 March 1963) p.139 – article
- Film International vol.7 no.1 (2009) pp.12-15 – article (Last year at Mansfield by Jim Supanick)
- Film Ireland no.39 (February/March 1994) pp.28-29 – illustrated review (by Anthony O’Keefe)
- Film Selezione vol.3 no.9 (January-February 1962) p.16 – credits
- Filmkritik no.11 (November 1961) pp.520; 548 – extract from screenplay; review
- Filmkritik no.12 (December 1961) p.563 – article – review
- Filmkritik no.5 (May 1961) p.236 – review
- Films and Filming vol.8 no.5 (February 1962) – translated reprint of the Cahiers du Cinéma vol.21 no.123 (September 1961) article
- Films and Filming vol.8 no.6 (March 1962) pp.30; 39 – review
- Films and Filming vol.8 no.6 (March 1962) pp.39; interview
- Films in Review vol.13 no.4 (April 1962) p.237 – review
- Films in Review vol.13 no.7 (August/September 1962) p.441 – review
- Die Filmwoche vol.16 no.45 (4 November 1961) p.6 – review
- The Hollywood Reporter vol.169 no.17 (6 March 1962) p.3 – review
- Image et Son no.144 (October 1961) – review
- Image et Son no.148 (February 1962) – interview
- Kine Weekly no.2840 (8 March 1962) p.45 – review
- Le Film Français no.907 (20 October 1961) p.20 – review
- The Listener vol.116 no.2989 (4 December 1986) p.31 – review
- Literature/Film Quarterly vol.32 no.4 (2004) pp.272-278 – illustrated article (At the Crossroads: Last Year at Marienbad by Spencer Shaw)
- Monthly Film Bulletin vol.29 no.338 (March 1962) p.30 – credits, synopsis, review
- Motion Picture Herald vol.226 no.13 (4 April 1962) p.501 – review
- Positif no.40 (July 1961) p.65 – review
- Positif no.44 (March 1962) p.36 – note
- Positif no.519 (May 2004) pp.98-100 – illustrated article (Écrans larges: Le jeu de la disparition by Jean-Pierre Berthomé)
- Post Script vol.26 no.2 (Winter/Spring 2007) pp.41-51 – article (Sontag’s erotics of film style: between meaning and presence by Charles O’Brien)
- Post Script vol.6 no.1 (Autumn 1986) pp.53-65 – article
- Post Script vol.7 no.2 (Winter 1988) pp.58-71 – article
- Projektion no.2 (1965) pp.18 – article
- Quarterly Review of Film Studies vol.5 no.1 (January 1980) pp.1-17 – article
- Screen vol.17 no.1 (Spring 1976) pp.34-39 – article
- Script no.2 (January 1962) p.6 – review
- Sight and Sound vol.2 no.2 (June 1992) pp.60 – video review
- Sight and Sound vol.30 no.1 (Winter 1960/1961) – review
- Sight and Sound vol.30 no.4 (Autumn 1961) p.176 – article – review
- Sight and Sound vol.31 no.1 (Winter 1961/1962) p.26 – review
- Sight and Sound vol.31 no.3 (Summer 1962) p.122 – article
- Sight and Sound vol.31 no.4 (Autumn 1962) p.206 – letter
- Sight and Sound vol.15 no.8 (August 2005) p.88 – DVD review (Last Year in Marienbad by Geoffrey Macnab)
- Sight and Sound vol.19 no.8 (August 2009) pp.86-87 – DVD review (Reviews: DVDs: Last Year at Marienbad by Michael Atkinson)
- Studies in French Cinema vol.8 no.2 (2008) pp.149-158 – illustrated article (Another Deleuzian Resnais: L’Année dernière à Marienbad (1961) as conflict between sadism and masochism – by Keith Reader
- Télérama no.2442 (30 October 1996) pp.98-99; 163 – illustrated article (La bataille de Marienbad by Philippe Piazzo)
- Theatre Arts vol.46 no.12 (December 1962) p.18 – article
- Variety 10 May 1961 – credite, review – review
Books
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.253 – credits
