Last Year at Marienbad: The Film Script

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Last Year at Marienbad: The Film Script
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Alain Robbe-Grillet
Translated by Richard Howard
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:156
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreFilms and cinema
Film scripts and screenplays
ISBN/Barcode 9780714550503
ClassificationsDewey:842.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Alma Books Ltd
Imprint Alma Books Ltd
Publication Date 22 September 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A man tells a woman that they have met before - that they became lovers but then agreed to separate for a year. The year is now up, and he has come back for her. At first, she remembers nothing, but as he relates their past together, real or imaginary, snapshots of memory appear - and she begins to believe him. As more details begin to re-emerge from the woman's mind, the reader is shunted backwards and forwards between the past and the present, the actual and the illusory, that which is seen and that which is only glimpsed and guessed at. The director Alain Resnais was already famous for films such as Hiroshima, Mon Amour when he asked Alain Robbe-Grillet - the author of several seminal novels, including Jealousy and The Voyeur, and the leader of the Nouveau Roman school - to write a script for him. The result was Last Year at Marienbad, a film that, as well as winning the Golden Lion at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, has enthralled the critics, fascinated the public and become one of the greatest cult classics of modern cinema.

Author Biography

Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008) is best known as the pioneering spokesman of the nouveau roman, a greatly influential movement in post-war French fiction, and as the author of Jealousy and The Voyeur.