Critic Reviews
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Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune
To even talk of a story is nonsensical, since a central aesthetic of the film involves the effects of fantasy, time and subjective memory on human consciousness. Marienbad takes place in a heightened, sci-fi nightmare world where knowing, believing
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Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
Marienbad is elegantly hermetic, a ravishing waxworks that has stillness at its heart.
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Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Remains one of cinema's glorious enigmas, endlessly compelling and intriguing.
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J. Hoberman, Village Voice
The movie is what it is -- a sustained mood, an empty allegory, a choreographed moment outside of time, and a shocking intimation of perfection.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
The film's dreamlike cadences, frozen tableaux, and distilled surrealist poetry are too eerie, too terrifying even, to be shaken off as camp. For all its notoriety, this masterpiece among masterpieces has never really received its due.
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Cast
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Delphine Seyrigas A -
Giorgio Albertazzias X -
Sacha Pitoëffas M
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