Written by Alain Robbe-Grillet, directed by Alain Resnais, Last Year at Marienbad is a striking, beautiful and surreal dream composed of intricate ornamentation, classical gardens, complex corridors and psychological chess. It asks the viewer some startling questions. Can what we do, think, and feel in the present change our memories that are already past? Can one person merely persuade another to change her memory of what was real? The answers suggested give the viewer the sense that our memories both reveal our own human fragility and form the only basis upon which it is possible to truly know another person.
—J.A.A. Purves