Let's Watch a French Movie: Last Year at Marienbad

The Nouveau Roman’s big-screen bow remains baffling and entrancing. Alain Renais’ camera prowls the Baroque halls and grounds of a luxe resort and occasionally alights on the dispassionate constituents of a love triangle as screenwriter Alain Robbe-Grillet’s narration goes on about its own elliptical business. An indelible cinema experience. -Lee Gardner

1961 Alain Resnais 2.35:1 B&W DCP 94 min. In French with subtitles