In one of the many parlors along the vast hall of a seemingly endless European resort, a man approaches a woman. A year before, at this very hotel—or was it in Frederiksbad, or perhaps Karlstadt?—the ...

Robbe-Grillet (the writers shared a Paris publisher) was a modish Structuralist novelist and, to quote, perhaps scandalously, from Wikipedia, "methodical, geometric and often repetitive descriptions ...

Cornell Cinema recently showed the 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad, a French film about an old hotel populated by wealthy guests. It focuses on an unnamed man, the narrator, who aggressively insists ...

In this unconventional French drama, a group of unnamed aristocrats interact at a palatial château, resulting in an enigmatic tale told partially in flashback. X (Giorgio Albertazzi) is convinced that ...