Last Year at Marienbad
The Film Script
Author: Alain Robbe-Grillet and Richard Howard Series: Calder Publications
Unique edition of the film script of one of the most iconic movies of the twentieth century. It contains an introduction by the author and photographs from the film
Unique edition of the film script of Last Year at Marienbad, one of the most iconic movies of the twentieth century. It contains an introduction by Alain Robbe-Grillet and 48 photographs from the film.
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Unique edition of the film script of one of the most iconic movies of the twentieth century. It contains an introduction by the author and photographs from the film
Unique edition of the film script of Last Year at Marienbad, one of the most iconic movies of the twentieth century. It contains an introduction by Alain Robbe-Grillet and 48 photographs from the film.
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A man tells a woman that they have met before – that they became lovers but then agreed to separate for a year. The year is now up, and he has come back for her. At first, she remembers nothing, but as he relates their past together, real or imaginary, snapshots of memory appear – and she begins to believe him. As more details begin to re-emerge from the woman’s mind, the reader is shunted backwards and forwards between the past and the present, the actual and the illusory, that which is seen and that which is only glimpsed and guessed at.The director Alain Resnais was already famous for films such as Hiroshima, Mon Amour when he asked Alain Robbe-Grillet – the author of several seminal novels, including Jealousy and The Voyeur, and the leader of the Nouveau Roman school – to write a script for him. The result was Last Year at Marienbad, a film that, as well as winning the Golden Lion at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, has enthralled the critics, fascinated the public and become one of the greatest cult classics of modern cinema.
About the Author
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922–2008) is best known as the pioneering spokesman of the nouveau roman, a greatly influential movement in post-war French fiction, and as the author of Jealousy and The Voyeur.
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