ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

FountainPen Pseudo-intellectuals will rave about the deep, esoteric, hidden meanings of what they consider to be an art film classic. Nonsense! This movie is a ridiculous piece of piffle that goes nowhere, says nothing, is merely a kind of experiment in pointless mental meanderings, like an LSD trip gone wrong. Big hit down in The Village in New York, among "beatnik" types who lauded it to the skies. My goodness! How pitiful. Providing you can stand suffering extreme boredom, you may wish to watch the flick, to see for yourself what the effete fuss is all about; you may even have a chuckle or two at the utter banality of it. Good luck.

adrianawebuhm The opening of this film can be a little annoying with repetitive structures and attention to meaningless games and aristocrats. What kept me was the excellent camera work.It is when the female lead of this story (Delphine Seyrig) enters the frame with Giorgio Albertazzi that the poetry of this film truly begins. The dreamlike, mysterious memories and connections between these characters drives the interest.Though, what really makes this film standout is the brilliant cinematography. The dialogue and script is very intelligent but it's cold. The connection between these characters breathes some warmth and life into it. One can easily see why this film found it so difficult to get distribution and screening time, until it was picked up in underground cinema.I see Last Year as one of best works in cinema ever, so it's a pity that true art like this isn't appreciated as much as it should. Even some of the most renowned critics and filmmakers were indifferent toward the film, but you can see its qualities were so amazing that it inspired Stanley Kubrick to use the way it captures the hotel - in his film The Shining.One of the best aspects of the camera work is it's framing, the use of shapes in how stylized the art design is. The architecture of the place, the gardens and the hotel all complement the language of this cinema and it's not difficult to conclude that this film was structured by a mathematician. Needs more heart, but I will only qualify it on what it is, not what I want it to be. Based on what it is and wants to be, there's only a handful of films that can match the quality of Alain Resnais' film.

angelikivrv best film ever made, absolute symmetry, time wise and space wiseIt is like an artistic interpretation of quantum physics.A love is going on in a mysterious hotel where the events repeat themselves, each time a different way...best film ever made, absolute symmetry, timewise and spacewise. Just watch it. If you are patient you will get it..This film is only appropriate for mathematicians or architects, or both and whoever has the gift to watch it and appreciate it.I have to submit 10 lines but I have no further comments, that is it. Enjoy it Watch it Recollect.

Jackson Booth-Millard This French language film was one featured in the book of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, from director Alain Resnais (Night and Fog), but like most of the other titles I had no clue about what it would entail, so I was hoping at five stars out of five it would be worthy of the honour. Basically at a château or baroque hotel a social gathering is taking place, a man, referred to as 'X' (Giorgio Albertazzi) approaches a woman, referred to as 'A' (Delphine Seyrig). He claims that had met before previously a year ago at Marienbad, he is also convinced that she has come to the event intentionally as she was waiting for him, but she says that have never met before. Her husband, referred to as 'M' (Sacha Pitoëff), tries to stop the man from bothering his wife, and challenges him in a mathematical game and beats him several times, but he seems to be correct as the film delves into flashback sequences as he describes past meetings. That is all I can say really, I think maybe because the characters had no names, and the story going backwards and forwards in time it was perhaps a little confusing. But the camera winding through various corridors, the use of voice overs and the scenes between the two lead characters are interesting enough, from what I can remember it was a watchable drama. It was nominated the Oscar for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen, and it was nominated the BAFTA for Best Film from any Source. Good!