Cinematheque: Six Films by Alain Resnais

No plot description can do Robbe-Grillet’s script justice: “X” (a man) tries to convince “A” (a woman) that they had an affair last year at Marienbad, all under the watchful gaze of “M” (certainly a man and possibly A’s husband or lover). Perhaps the canonical example of art cinema narration, Resnais’s film is, says Ebert, either “silly or profound,” but doubtless “voluptuous,” “hypnotic” and brimming with “austere visual beauty.” France/Italy, 1961, 35mm, b/w, 94 min. subtitled.