| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Summary |
Robbe-Grillet described Marienbad as 'the story of a persuading' centred on a romantic triangle ending in violence, constructed in the mind of X, one of the three. To Resnais, Marienbad 'looks like a statue and sounds like an opera'. The images of the chateau are those of a labyrinth of fake trails, variants, failures and repetitions, destroying spatial and temporal logic in a film about the processes of memory that locates everything in the present tense. In keeping with Robbe-Grillet's rejection of conventional interior monologue the emphasis is not on what X is thinking and feeling but on what he 'sees'. With a hint of playfulness Resnais' treatment of Robbe-Grillet's script suggests a meditation on narrative tyranny, a modernist demonstration of narrative cinema as process: instead of the image revealing the world, it reveals itself |
| Credits |
Producers, Pierre Courau, Raymond Froment ; director, Alain Resnais ; script, Alain Robbe-Grillet ; photography, Sacha Vierny ; music, Francis Seyrig |
| Cast |
Giorgio Albertazzi, Delphine Seyrig, Sacha Pitoeff |
| Notes |
French dialogue, English subtitles |
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“This material has been reproduced by or on behalf of Deakin University pursuant to s200AB of the Copyright Act 1968 (the Act)" |
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Originally produced in VHS format, 1961 |
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DVD |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
| Subject |
Feature films
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| Author |
Resnais, Alain, 1922-
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Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 1922-
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Vierny, Sacha.
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Seyrig, Delphine.
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Albertazzi, Giorgio.
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Pitoeff, Sacha.
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