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Informationen zum Autor Jean-Louis Leutrat taught cinema history and aesthetics at the University of Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle! France. He wrote books on Jean-Luc Godard! Resnais! John Ford! and Jean Renoir. A quintessential work of 1960s European art cinema, "L'Annee derniere a Marienbad "("Last Year in Marienbad, "1961) was a collaboration between director Alain Resnais and 'New Novel" enfant terrible Alain Robbe-Grillet. Three people, known only by their initials, move through the sprawling luxury of a mysterious hotel and its ornamental gardens. Perhaps M is A's husband and X her lover. Perhaps '"last year," A promised X she would leave with him. Or is there something more terrible in the past? An abstract thriller, a love story, a philosophical puzzle, the film's deviations are, for Jean-Louis Leutrat, as complex as those of the human heart. Zusammenfassung A quintessential work of 1960s European art cinema, "L'Annee derniere a Marienbad "("Last Year in Marienbad, "1961) was a collaboration between director Alain Resnais and 'New Novel" enfant terrible Alain Robbe-Grillet. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A Controversial Work2. The Film's Background3. The Genesis of the Film4. A Description of the Film5. The Two 'L'Année dernière à Marienbad'6. 'L'Année dernière à Marienbad' and the History of CinemaNotesCreditsBibliography
