Last Year at Marienbad
Featuring a Book Signing with Mark Polizzotti
L’Année dernière à Marienbad
Schedule
Friday, December 12, 2025
Featuring a pre-event reception; film introduction; & post-show Q&A + book signing
6pm: Reception
7pm: Screening followed by a Q&A and book signing with author Mark Polizzotti, moderated by author Andrew Seguin
Alain Resnais, 1961, 93min, DCP
Starring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff
Don’t try to make sense of it. Just let yourself be seduced by the sensuous rhythms, dreamlike camerawork, luscious settings, hypnotic soundtrack, and over-the-top wardrobes. Alain Resnais’s second feature, after Hiroshima mon amour, was co-written with New Novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, and is a masterpiece of ambiguity, passion, and the vicissitudes of memory. Slammed by some, adored by others, it is also one of the most influential and groundbreaking French films ever made.
–Mark Polizzotti, Jump Cuts: Essays on Surrealism, Film, Music, Culture, and Other Utopian Topics, published by The Song Cave
4K restoration of Last Year at Marienbad from the original negative by Studiocanal at Hiventy Laboratory, with the support of CNC and Chanel
Venue
Event Pricing
(Limit one guest per member)
Additional online fees may apply
Mark Polizzotti
Mark Polizzotti is an American author and translator. His books include Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, Highway 61 Revisited, and Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto. His writings have appeared in Apollo, Bookforum, The Brooklyn Rail, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. His translations includes works by André Breton, Marguerite Duras, Gustave Flaubert, Patrick Modiano, Scholastique Mukasonga, and Arthur Rimbaud. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, he lives in New York, where he is Publisher and Editor in Chief at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a role in which he oversees all aspects of the Museum’s publishing program which produces scholarly books, exhibition catalogues, gallery text, art journals, and other publications.
His newest book is Jump Cuts: Essays on Surrealism, Film, Music, Culture, and Other Utopian Topics.
Andrew Seguin
Andrew Seguin is the author of the poetry collection The Room In Which I Work and translator of Earthly, Selected Poems of Jean Follain, published this year by The Song Cave. Andrew is a former Fulbright Scholar to France and lives in New York City.
Cinema at L’Alliance New York is made possible by the generous support of BNP Paribas and Air France.
L'Alliance New York's programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the Support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Lead image: Last Year at Marienbad, Courtesy Rialto Pictures – StudiocanalÂ
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