Last Year at Marienbad - opening scene

Last Year at Marienbad (1960) by Alain Resnais

[@mizofan]

Elegant, mysterious, timeless and beautiful

[@MegaCirse]

Never, never has a movie surprised and fascinated me like this one. We are here in a parallel world where all appearances are the windows of our most blinding desires and troubles. All distances are abolished and bring us back to the origins of our translucent illusions. I would like to lose myself definitively in all these looks, these gardens, these woodwork and these vanishing lines. Unequaled work of implosive beauty!

[@docbailey3265]

Perhaps.

[@rogerivy2919]

lol i like the fact that u took the effort to translate it to english or French!!! it shows ur comment is genuine :))

[@shockadelic]

This has to one of the most daring and original ways to open a movie: filming the ceiling

[@elizabethveldonstuff]

such a beautiful film

[@MegaCirse]

Jamais, jamais aucun film ne m'a étonné et ne m'a fasciné comme celui-ci. Nous sommes ici dans un monde parallèle où toutes les apparences sont les fenêtres de nos désirs et troubles les plus aveuglants. Toutes les distances sont abolies et nous ramènent aux origines de nos illusions translucides. Je voudrais me perdre définitivement dans tous ces regards, ces jardins, ces boiseries et ces lignes de fuites. Un travail sans égal, d'une beauté implosive !

[@kafkastrial8650]

The black glass ,forever and ever ...

[@marcamant7258]

Hello everybody here is the info about the music L'ANNEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD (film) / Musique de SEYRIG (Francis) ; GIROD (Marie-louise) (orgue) gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k8830164n/f1.media

[@meesalikeu]

one of my favorite movies. kind of a shame we recently found out what its about. still it remains enigmatic and beautiful.

[@Nisfornarwhal1990]

What do you mean by 'found out what its about'?

[@matador1111]

rape&revenge maybe

[@1marcelo]

It has always been clear that a rape might have happened. It is never sure whether it really happened or not.

[@MegaCirse]

@@Nisfornarwhal1990 .... Of the illusion of all dreamed lives, probably .....

[@KristelMarielPerezRios]

WHAT?!? A rape? I thought it was about a love affair

[@concentusxl]

"L'anno scorso a Marienbad" (1961) è un film emblematico della "nouvelle vague" francese del tempo. Difficile, enigmatico, questo è l'unico film con la colonna sonora eseguita interamente all'organo. Lo stile musicale è decisamente moderno. Qui l'audio è comprensibilmente scarso.

[@morice4801]

Does anyone know what that track is called that's playing during this scene?

[@epsisphal]

Original music from Francis Seyrig (brother of Delphine).

[@docbailey3265]

When I saw this as an 18 year old film student I thought it was steaming pile of bullshit. As a 70 year old I find this a masterpiece! Does this mean my long-term exposure to American Media Culture has resulted in a taste for bullshit? Perhaps.

[@scotgat]

I first saw this movie in 1980 as part of my film course in college. I have only one criticism of this film: the use of the organ was ill advised. I think Bernard Herrmann could have done interesting things with this film.

[@syb2965]

The use of organ music is never ill-advised.

[@StereotypicBehaviour]

Alain Robbe-Grillet also thought the organ music was ill-advised and had originally conceived of a soundtrack “designed to set the nerves on edge”, consisting of a score based on “realistic noises such as one hears in old-style hotels”. This would have been constructed from recordings of lift doors, gates, bells that summon employees, etc arranged with a structure full of holes and shocks.

[@amandarose2007]

Really tedious and self-absorbed.

[@toddcraig9035]

Yeah, in a way it is self-absorbed. But having said that, self-absorbed can sometimes make for the most interesting art as you get to be inside the artist's heart and soul... and that is 100 times more engaging than crap without soul or heart.... And "Last Year at Marienbad" is the most beautiful movie I have ever seen... And that cannot be discounted.

[@docbailey3265]

For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who don’t understand, no explanation will suffice. And I’m better than you. Perhaps.

[@cescorosa61]

Alain Resnais Is One of the most important movie directors in history of cinema