This French language film was one featured in the book of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, from director Alain Resnais (Night and Fog), but like most of the other titles I had no clue about what it would entail, so I was hoping at five stars out of five it would be worthy of the honour. Basically at a château or baroque hotel a social gathering is taking place, a man, referred to as 'X' (Giorgio Albertazzi) approaches a woman, referred to as 'A' (Delphine Seyrig). He claims that had met before previously a year ago at Marienbad, he is also convinced that she has come to the event intentionally as she was waiting for him, but she says that have never met before. Her husband, referred to as 'M' (Sacha Pitoëff), tries to stop the man from bothering his wife, and challenges him in a mathematical game and beats him several times, but he seems to be correct as the film delves into flashback sequences as he describes past meetings. That is all I can say really, I think maybe because the characters had no names, and the story going backwards and forwards in time it was perhaps a little confusing. But the camera winding through various corridors, the use of voice overs and the scenes between the two lead characters are interesting enough, from what I can remember it was a watchable drama. It was nominated the Oscar for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen, and it was nominated the BAFTA for Best Film from any Source. Good!
Review of Last Year at Marienbad
