Last Year at Marienbad (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Starring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff, et al. (2009)

A cinematic puzzle, Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad is a radical exploration of the formal possibilities of film. Beautifully shot in Cinemascope by Sacha Vierny, the movie is a riddle of seduction, a mercurial enigma darting between a present and past which may not even exist, let alone converge. The film stars Giorgio Albertazzi as an unnamed sophisticate attempting to convince a similarly nameless woman (Delphine Seyrig) that they met and were romantically involved a year ago in the same enormous, baroque European hotel. In the end, it hardly matters -- they're not characters so much as pawns anyway. Hypnotically dreamlike, Last Year at Marienbad is a surrealist parody of Hollywood melodrama, a high-fashion romance with a dark, alien underbelly.
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Features:

Audio interview with Resnais; Documentary on the making of DLast Year at Marienbad, featuring interviews with many of Resnais' collaborators; Video interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau on the history of the film and its many mysteries; Two short documentaries by Resnais: Toute la mémoire du monde (1956) and Le chant du styrène (1958); Original theatrical trailer and Rialto's rerelease trailer