“It is possible, I realize, to grow impatient with Last Year at Marienbad. To find it affected and insufferable. It doesn’t hurtle through its story like today’s hits—it’s not a narrative pinball machine. It is a deliberate, artificial artistic construction. I watched it with a pleasure so intense I was surprised. I knew to begin with there would be no solution. That the three characters would move forever through their dance of desire and denial, and that their clothing and the elegant architecture of the chateau was as real as the bedroom at the end of 2001—in other words, simply a setting in which human behavior could be observed.”
— Roger Ebert (via bryanmckay)
