Last Year at Marienbad (1961) Remaster 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC AAC-SARTRE

A cinematic puzzle, Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad is a radical exploration of the formal possibilities of film. Beautifully shot in Cinemascope by Sacha Vierny, the movie is a riddle of seduction, a mercurial enigma darting between a present and past which may not even exist, let alone converge. The film stars Giorgio Albertazzi as an unnamed sophisticate attempting to convince a similarly nameless woman (Delphine Seyrig) that they met and were romantically involved a year ago in the same enormous, baroque European hotel. In the end, it hardly matters -- they're not characters so much as pawns anyway. Hypnotically dreamlike, Last Year at Marienbad is a surrealist parody of Hollywood melodrama, a high-fashion romance with a dark, alien underbelly. According to screenwriter Alain Robbe-Grillet, the movie is a pure construction, without a frame of reference outside of its own existence -- the lives of its characters begin when the lights go down, and conclude when they come back up.

Sample Clip

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Here's a comparison between my rips of the Criterion and the 4K remaster. Note that the Criterion is encoded at 5000kbps vs the 7000kbps of the remaster so it doesn't reflect the source as well but it can give you an idea of the differences between the blu-rays.

http://post.screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/125937