Sunday, February 16, 4:15 p.m. & Friday, February 21, 4:00 p.m. | In the halls of an opulent hotel, the past and the present melt into one another when a man (Giorgio Albertazzi) approaches a woman (Delphine Seyrig, draped in Chanel) and declares they met the year before and had an affair. She insists they did not. A defining work of the French New Wave, LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD is all at once a surreal fever dream, a ghost story, a puzzle box, and the cinematic equivalent of a word that is on the tip of your tongue. When it premiered, New York Times critic Bosley Crowther advised, “It may grip you with a strange enchantment, it may twist your wits into a snarl, it may leave your mind and senses toddling vaguely in the regions in between.”

Awards & Nominations

Winner - Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival
Nominee - Best Original Screenplay, Academy Awards

Persistence of Memory: Ten films (poetically, all quite memorable) that explore recollection, unreliable narrators and amnesiatic protagonists, ghosts real and imagined, the way others remember us (ouch), and the coming to terms with that, as much as we try to hold on to them, as time passes our memories shift and slip away. Read more

The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu