Last Year at Marienbad dvd movie.|
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List Price: $9.98 Features • Black & White • DVD-Video • Letterboxed • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 07 March, 1962 DVD Release : 23 March, 1999 |
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Last Year at Marienbad description One of the most ferociously iconoclastic and experimental films of the French New Wave, Alain Resnais's 1961 feature, winner of the grand prize at that year's Venice Film Festival, is based on a script by Alain Robbe-Grillet. At its center is what seems to be a simple but unanswerable puzzle: Did its protagonist (Giorgio Albertazzi) have an affair the year before with a woman (Delphine Seyrig) he just met (or possibly re-met) at his hotel? The inquiry becomes an unsettling experiment in flattening the dimensions of past, present, and future so that any difference between them becomes meaningless, while Resnais's coldly formal but oddly dreamlike geometric compositions make space itself seem a function of subjective memory. Add to that Resnais's trademark tracking shots--long, smooth, a visual correlative of a wordless feeling--and this is a film that truly gets under the skin in almost inexplicable ways. One of the most influential works of its time. --Tom Keogh |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Watch out - very poor quality VHS dub! |
| This review is not about the film, "Last Year at Marienbad", which I consider a classic, but rather the horrible technical quality of this tape.
I ordered the VHS version of "Marienbad" because the DVD is evidently out of print, and the cheapest DVD price on Amazon is currently about $300 (!) I wouldn't mind it if this tape was merely VHS quality, but it's not -- it's so horrible as to be almost unwatchable. It looks like a bootleg copy made with cheap equipment by people who have no idea what they're doing and no concern about quality. The beginning of the film has out-of-synch, snowy, grainy images which keep fading in and out, making it impossible to tell what's going on. Later, the quality "improves", but is still worse than a VHS dub made on home equipment. Buyer beware -- you get what you pay for! |
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