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Originally Posted by Papillon Noir
@alkytrio & fortunato
So just how French New Wave is Last Year at Marienbad? It sounds like it could be interesting, but I just hate French New Wave. I just find it so boring and frustrating to watch. I've also been known to fall asleep during them.
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It's definitely a lot different than your standard French New Wave (i.e.
Breathless/
Band of Outsiders,
400 Blows, and so on). In fact, the film and its creator (Alain Resnais) belonged to a group they called the "Left Bank", which clearly separated itself from the traditional New Wave directors. The Left Bank incorporated more aspects of experimental film, and tended to create more moody, expressionist pieces.
Last Year at Marienbad, to me, really had the feel of early surrealism, like (I linked the videos in case you want to check any of these out):
Buñuel's
L'age D'or (1929)
Kirsanoff's
Ménilmontant (1926)
Epstein's
Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
I'll go out on a limb and say that even though you don't care for the regular French New Wave stuff, you could still enjoy this a lot.
Haha, although when you say "boring and frustrating watch", that's kind of exactly what
Last Year at Marienbad is. I mean, not boring, but it's really slow-paced, and it can certainly be frustrating to watch as it doesn't try to give you any answers.
So I don't know, but I would recommend at least taking a chance on it.