Last Year At Marienbad (Special Edition) DVD

Disc One: Original theatrical trailer and Rialto's rerelease trailer

Disc Two: Audio interview with Resnais

• Documentary on the making of Last Year at Marienbad, featuring interviews with many of Resnais' collaborators
• Video interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau on the history of the film and its many mysteries
• Two short documentaries by Resnais: Toute la mémoire du monde (1956) and Le chant du styrène (1958)

Director: Alain Resnais
Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi

Not just a defining work of the French New Wave but one of the great, lasting mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais' epochal visual poem has been puzzling appreciative viewers for decades. A surreal fever dream, or perhaps a nightmare, Last Year At Marienbad (L'annee derniere a Marienbad), written by the radical master of the New Novel, Alain Robbe-Grillet, gorgeously fuses the past with the present in telling its ambiguous tale of a man and a woman (Giorgio Albertazzi and Delphine Seyrig) who may or may not have met a year ago, perhaps at the very same cathedral-like, mirror-bedecked chateau they now find themselves wandering. Unforgettable in both its confounding details (gilded ceilings, diabolical parlor games, a loaded gun) and haunting scope, Resnais' investigation into the nature of memory is disturbing, romantic, and maybe even a ghost story.