Last Year at Marienbad comes to DVD-Don't worry it is still pretty weird...

This film, an earlyl work of the French New Wave also doubles as an arty head game film. Director Alain Resnais’ haunting (and haunted?) Last Year at Marienbad (L’année dernière à Marienbad) has been maddeningly enigmatic as a film experience for almost 50 years.

Written by the somewhat controversial novelist (and former scientist) Alain Robbe-Grillet, this eerie work somehow wraps the past with the present in telling its murky tale of a man and a woman (Giorgio Albertazzi and Delphine Seyrig) who met a year ago (or maybe not) at the very chateau they are now rambling around in (or maybe not).

This film has a mixed reputation (it is on the occassional worst films list) and its willful lack of real narrative and resolution can be frustrating to movie goers who tend to place some importance on plot and resolution. Still, in the right mood one can appreciate a film like this as one might enjoy a photo, poem or sculpture that does not have any immediate definition...

Criterion has some extras on this release including extensive interview with Resnais who tries to explain the film for you...