Your humble correspondent, Mrs. yhc, and the dogs have had a week fraught with incident, so we decided we needed an in-chateau vacation. We watched Last Year at Marienbad to get away from it all.
The Alain Resnais-Alain Robbe-Grillet collaboration was one of the first foreign-language films I ever saw, so, of course, I didn’t get it. But like Mr. Zimmerman’s Mr. Jones, I knew something was happening. What is it about? The emptiness of bourgeois life? The unreliability of…