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...felt like murdering and those they actually did murder; they feel as guilty for their thoughts as for their deeds. In brooding conversations in their cell, they mull over the infinite possibilities of their guilt in the neorealist manner made familiar by Robbe-Grillet's Last Year at Marienbad...
Chess & Counterspies. Labyrinth takes place in a murky sort of mahogany Marienbad. Endless corridors and countless doors make the plight of a bridegroom who has lost his key and forgotten his room number on his wedding night seem hopeless indeed. As he and his bride flounder around with understandable impatience, a series of personages appear, each bearing-according to Menotti-a strong allegorical identity. An old man in a wheelchair, who represents The Past, lures the groom into a cobwebby conservatory filled with jungle plants to play a possibly symbolic game of chess. Another door leads him into a drab...
...never read Ulysses," groans Fellini. "I've never seen Last Year at Marienbad, I don't know anything about Proust, and I have only seen one film by Bergman." His director-hero, he explains, is just a man who finally accepts his own confusion and doubts and sees "that this chaos is the real force out of which his creativity comes...
...answer pointed up the real fault in this first play of the critically acclaimed "new O'Neill," Edward Albee. The Zoo Story has no point. It isn't really a play, but more a tour de force or extended joke, like Last Year at Marienbad. You can almost see Albee laughing at all the conflicting disseminations of his meaning that have been produced. One of the two characters in the play expresses Albee's weltanschauung clearly: "What are you trying to do, bring sense out of things...
Last Year at Marienbad. The French New Wave, which has saltily subsided, nevertheless flung up the intellectual sensation of the year, a tour de force of cubistic cinema in which Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour) dismantles reality and reassembles it in a monstrous maze whose exit is its entrance...