StudioCanal: 4K Restoration of Last Year at Marienbad Detailed for Blu-ray

StudioCanal has detailed its upcoming release of Alain Resnais' classic film Last Year in Marienbad (1961), starring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff, Françoise Bertin, and Jean Lanier. The release will be available for purchase on September 17.

Synopsis: A stunning new restoration of one of the most enigmatic and distinctive films ever made, this astounding collaboration between director Alain Resnais (Night and Fog) and leading French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet is a key moment in the French New Wave.

In a baroque spa hotel, an unnamed sophisticate (Giorgio Albertazzi) attempts to persuade a similarly unnamed married woman (Delphine Seyrig) that they have not only previously met, but that they were also romantically involved and had planned to elope together. The woman recalls no such encounter and so begins a sensual and philosophical examination of the uncertainty of truth.

Strikingly composed and beautifully shot in Cinemascope by Sacha Vierny, Last Year in Marienbad hypnotically merges chronology to radically blur the boundaries of reality and fantasy. A seductive and utterly fascinating cinematic puzzle, the film has been astonishing audiences for over forty years.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• BRAND NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM from the original camera negative completed at Hiventy laboratory with the support of Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
• Resnais and Robbe-Grillet - filmed introduction by film historian Ginette Vincendeau
• Two short films by Alain Resnais
• Le chant du Styrène a.k.a. The Styrene's Song (1959)
• Toute la mémoire du monde a.k.a. The Memory of the World (1957)
• In the Labyrinth of Marienbad - documentary by Luc Lagier (34 min)
• Alain Robbe-Grillet - documentary by Frederic Compain (49 min).
• New Trailer for the 4K restoration of the film
• Vintage Trailer
• Optional English subtitles for the main feature