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4/4
The Best Film of its Kind
SIngli6 - wrote on 03/20/2022
This labyrinthine obfuscation of a movie is as close to perfection as films get. Throughout all of its madness there is still a very clear sense of character development and discovery, and while there are myriad interpretations to just about every aspect of the film's baroque nonsense of a story, it doesn't feel exclusively designed for incoherence. It manages to be something malleable to the eyes of its beholders while seeming concrete to the individual beholder. This isn't a David Lynch film, where part of the fun is to just accept the meaning is unattainable. Here, the meaning is attainable and it is irrefutable, even if only for one person.
I for one firmly believe this is The Woman's story, and that the man is a dead lover from her last year at Marienbad who raped her before …
Rating of
4/4
The Epitome of Modernist Cinema
cacb3995 - wrote on 07/19/2018
Famous for being einigmatic and dream-like, a movie were categories like time and space seem to be as superflous and unreliable as memory itself, Resnais’ has been considered the quintessential example of modernist cinema. The film takes place in a baroque hotel during a high society event. The guests are all socialites and take part in games of cards, shooting as sport and small plays. In the midst of all these bourgeoise activities a mysterious man approaches a woman – whose husband is busy winning at a card game each time – and he tells her how both of them had met a year before. The woman of course has no recollection of this. The man proceeds to tell his story multiple times, each time with some sort of variation that completely changes the event dramatically, and by the end …
