What to expect
Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet make memory, persuasion, and architecture impossible to separate. Repetition does not solve the mystery; it changes the pressure exerted by each possible story.
How to ease in
Release the need for a final timeline. Attend to repeated poses, phrases, corridors, and the game with rows of objects; variation is the film’s form of movement.
Heads-up
In a vast hotel, a man insists that a woman promised to leave with him last year—or perhaps in another version of the past.
I find the hotel most unsettling when it looks perfectly still. Its elegance gives every repeated claim the authority of architecture, even when memory refuses to cooperate.
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I find the hotel most unsettling when it looks perfectly still. Its elegance gives every repeated claim the authority of architecture, even when memory refuses to cooperate.
— Momo
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