L'année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) Reviews
Top CriticObscure, oneiric, it's either some sort of masterpiece or meaningless twaddle.
Slant Magazine
The poster child of cinematic modernism, one of those early-'60s event films that seemed to break every rule classical Hollywood ever codified.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Slant Magazine
The recurring attitude throughout most interpretations of Marienbad is that of sheer interpretation fatigue.
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| Original Score: 4/4
It is a deliberate, artificial artistic construction. I watched it with a pleasure so intense I was surprised.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Movie Gazette
Leading the viewer up more than one garden path and forever haunting the corridors of the mind, this perplexing enigma is a labyrinth of chillingly perfect construction.
Little White Lies
an enigmatic mind-melt that sends characters and viewers alike on a chronology-confounding loop down labyrinthine corridors and up garden paths in pursuit of a (re)solution that, even after it has been found, remains elusive and ambiguous.
Movie Metropolis
Its one of the greatest films ever made, and an experience unrivaled in cinema.
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| Original Score: 10/10
eFilmCritic.com
The real star of the movie is Sacha Vierny, whose pristine, symmetrical, black-and-white widescreen compositions rank with the great achievements in cinematography.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The film's dreamlike cadences, frozen tableaux, and distilled surrealist poetry are too eerie, too terrifying even, to be shaken off as camp. For all its notoriety, this masterpiece among masterpieces has never really received its due.
Combustible Celluloid
What finally dazzled me about the film is the way that Resnais cleverly put together a 94-minute film without ever taking a stand on any single thing; every single shot, detail, story, and character is suspect -- and subject to change without notice.
New York Press
Consistent with his other great works, Marienbad transcends reality. Resnais' projects haven't aged because they defy time.
Film4
Fascinating, perplexing and infuriating in equal measure, this spectacular example of dreamlike filmmaking deserves to be approached with an open -- or opened -- mind. Every aspect is ambiguous, but the rewards are there.
Nick's Flick Picks
It's become a punchline for early-60s artiness, but hey - this is still an entrancing piece of work.
| Original Score: 5/5
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
How one takes to such a deceptively ambiguous film depends on one's attitude toward unconventional films.
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| Original Score: A
Apollo Guide
Cold and aloof, this is also a strangely haunting movie experience.
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| Original Score: 72/100
Film-Forward.com
The beautiful last gasp of black-and-white cinematography
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| Original Score: 3/5
Turner Classic Movies Online
... a tantalizing mystery and a work of cinema as intricately faceted as a jewel.
