Last Year at Marienbad: Directed by Alain Resnais. With Giorgio Albertazzi, Delphine Seyrig, Sacha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin. In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.

As a matter of fact, "X" insists that they had met the year before at the Czech spa-town of Marienbad; however, the perplexed woman has no recollection of their secret romantic encounter. But, as they meander through the palatial estate's lavishly decorated rooms, the question remains: is "X" telling the truth?

"Last Year at Marienbad" features an arithmetic roster of characters- all of whom we only come to know as A, X, and M- who are in an opulent, seemingly deserted European château.

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A man meets a woman at a European spa and tries to convince her (and himself) that they met one year ago. While the plot is simple, its presentation is not. I first saw L'annee derniere a Marienbad while taking a French Film class in college. Of the dozen or so films we watched, Marienbad has stayed with me the longest.

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Last Year at Marienbad: Directed by Alain Resnais. With Giorgio Albertazzi, Delphine Seyrig, Sacha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin. In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.

Tantalus was a a Greek mythological figure punished to suffer eternally in Tartarus by standing in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water always receding before he could take a drink. "Marienbad" is the German name of the spa town Mariánské Lázne, Czech Republic.

This mysterious film shows us a man and a woman in an extravagant and capacious hotel. The man insists that he had an affair with the lady last year in Marienbad (or was it somewhere else?) The woman denies it, and just wants the man to leave her alone. Perhaps the man did meet her, perhaps he didn't.