Things that inspire us: Last Year in Marienbad
Last Year in Marienbad (L’Année Dernière À Marienbad) is a movie directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet.
This is an exploration of the temporal and spatial quality of moving images from 1961. It uses extensively the narrative’s editing process—like a fabric that can be weaved at will—to manipulate the audience’s feelings.
Why we like it:
– the photography is beautiful, and there is a great use of perspective and lengthy travelling.
– it has historical values in terms of story telling.
– it challenged the preconceived ideas of how movie tells a story; in that it’s a precursor to more recent movies like Memento and Pulp Fiction.
– the trailer of the movie really expects its audience to be intelligent beings; it challenges openly its expectation.
Read more:
– on Wikipedia: Last Year in Marienbad
