{"id":6469,"date":"2026-04-26T15:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=6469"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:16:18","slug":"lannee-derniere-a-marienbad-by-alain-resnais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/04\/26\/lannee-derniere-a-marienbad-by-alain-resnais\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u2019Ann\u00e9e derni\u00e8re \u00e0 Marienbad<\/em> by Alain Resnais"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2705 Memories are the baroque trompe-l\u2019\u0153il palaces we live in.<\/p>\n

\u2705 A Fourier transform between \u201cthe complexity of thought, of its processes\u201d (Resnais) and a science fiction-ish time loop with ever-accumulating discrepancies, uncertainties, and artifacts (Polaroids).<\/p>\n

\u2705 Last year\u2019s scandal might be merely X and A taking off together, so there\u2019s no ending but endless reboots with coalescing conflicting variations.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s always too easy to refer to Ebert, but in this case it seems appropriate because I think it\u2019s one of the best reviews he ever wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Note on a Detail<\/span>
\nIn the theater, during the final shot when the hotel goes dark, I noticed what looked like a shuttle or ambulance entering from the left and stopping in front of the hotel. At home, I checked the 2018 Studiocanal version, and there it was, easily overlooked: 1:33:32 to 1:33:40, right before the cut to the end card. In the context of the movie, the presence of a car strikes me as pretty outrageous, but nobody else on the internet (at least in English or French) seems to have noticed and commented on this. I can\u2019t check the 2009 out-of-print Criterion version or the original, unrestored version, but as the Studiocanal version is known to have boosted details in the shadows, that detail might have been invisible before. However, I suspect that it\u2019s actually a miscut, that the car is a production van that appeared after the scene was finished but the camera still rolling, and I also suspect it happened while restoring the film from its original camera negatives. Further information welcome!<\/p>\n

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L\u2019Ann\u00e9e derni\u00e8re \u00e0 Marienbad<\/em><\/a> by Alain Resnais, 1961.
\nWatched at the Metropol theater on April 21, 2026, in its original language with subtitles.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\ud83c\udfac Its mesmerizing quality fully restored.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-archive","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6469"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6592,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469\/revisions\/6592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}