Overview
Film: Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961, 94 min.)
Your job is not to “figure out what happened” in the film, or to try to resolve the uncertainty the film leaves you with. Instead, assume that the film’s uncertainty is intentional. Why? What does it accomplish in its lack of clear resolution, storyline, or meaning? Sit with the strangeness of the film, and analyze it as a strange film—don’t try to remove or explain away its strangeness. Let the readings be your guide. I want to see you thinking creatively and weirdly, and I want to see you making bold arguments.