A quintessential work of 1960s European art cinema, L''Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad, 1961) was a collaboration between director Alain Resnais and ''New Novel'' enfant terrible Alain Robbe-Grillet. Three people, known only by their initials, move through the sprawling luxury of a mysterious hotel and its ornamental gardens. Perhaps M is A''s husband and X her lover. Perhaps, ''last year'', A promised X she would leave with him. Or is there something more terrible in the past? An abstract thriller, a love story, a philosophical puzzle, ''the film''s deviations are'', for Jean-Louis Leutrat, ''as complex as those of the human heart''.
