MEMORY IS A MAZE WITH NO EXIT.

In an opulent European hotel, a man (Giorgio Albertazzi) insists he once met a woman (Delphine Seyrig) there before, perhaps loved her, perhaps not. As she resists his certainty, time fractures into repetitions and contradictions.

Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Last Year at Marienbad remains one of cinema’s great enigmas. Its elegant tracking shots, architectural precision, and recursive structure transformed narrative possibility, influencing generations of filmmakers and artists. A film less interested in answers than in the experience of remembering itself, it stands as a defining work of modernist cinema.

Selected for Letterboxd Video Store by guest curator Richard Linklater

In French with English subtitles available.