L'année dernière à Marienbad...(21/7)

Ce n'est pas important, quelle année, quel mois, quel jour, quel minute, quel moment, sans doute, il y a de temps qui passe et qui arrive, simplement...this is another classics in the film history on 1961. Alain Resnais played Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi and Sacha Pitoeff in Last Year at Marienbad. There is no reason why it had to be at Marienbad, a spa-town in Czech (Mariánské Lázně), or right, it could be any place, and it was not important. Actually the film was shot at Chateau Nymphenburg, Chateau Schleissheim, and Chateau Amalienburg in Munich, though the audience may think that it was a chateau in France. The film should be a bomb in 1961, and the stylish beats of editing skill and the mysterious story telling trait with a narrative-centred arrangement are astonishing. The film is a very good demonstration of story telling that can be put on the drama stage. It reinvigorates me a lot my passion on film making and drama production. The film consists of a strong sense of uncertainty, true or false interpretation and cuts, and it plays déjà-vu and first-person narrative, and the result is in harmony. The scene design is excellent and it has an aesthetic touch of dualism. People and objects were mostly in pairs in the film. Viewing Seyrig and Albertazzi meeting in the different scenes of the ballroom, corridors, stairs and gardens, the sensation is tragically elegant. The beautiful moments of the pairing guests passing in between the camera and the characters by the side of the bar table were film classics. Nim is a character in the film when Albertazzi played the game with Pitoeff. It is a matter of winning or loss. Cycle is perhaps a repetitive theme in the film as well. The poetic camera captures the glamourous architecture and decoration in the Chateau while people remain silent and still. It is exactly the classics when the whole world becomes you and me. Distance appears to be an important element in the film. Lovers were poets. Physical background of when and what and how and where become unimportant. C'est la même. Sculptures played in the film too, and simultaneously, Seyrig and Albertazzi become the sculptures of Marienbad. Of course, having the debut attention to the world film industry, Seyrig is always the angel of flair in Marienbad...ou n'importe où.