One of cinema's most haunting and erotic poems. Forgoing a traditional chronological structure, the film moves effortlessly between memory and imagination, past and present, desire and fulfilment as a man tries to convince a woman that they had an affair the year before and she should leave the man she is with. A vast baroque mansion with geometrically designed gardens is the setting for the cryptic conversations, while stylised playing, unforgettable organ music, disconcerting tracking shots down endless corridors and the mysteriously beautiful Seyrig as the woman all contribute to this classic film.
*Lion d'Or, Venice, 1961
Director
Alain Resnais
Cast
Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff
94 minutes
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