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The central mysteries of Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad still baffle critics and audiences to this day. The film is a fixture on most critics’ greatest-movies lists and maintains a strong cult status among cinephiles. Marienbad has just been released as a Criterion Collection special edition DVD & Blu-ray, enabling a new generation of film lovers to ponder how this film could be so loved and be such a cultural touchstone when it can also seem like such a tedious experience.
This article appears in Jul 1-7, 2009.