Marienbad
Americannoun
noun
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On one plane, there’s Hannaford’s film, a kind of dreamy pastiche of European art cinema seemingly inspired in equal parts by Last Year at Marienbad, Persona, and Michelangelo Antonioni.
From The Verge ● Nov. 1, 2018
One card went to his mother, Therese, at an address in Marienbad, a Czech spa town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2018
Or you might nominate Last Year at Marienbad instead, in which case I’ll say that you’re privileging obscurantist avant-garde chic over the clarity and classicism of a film about a film remake of the Odyssey.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2013
A snippet of the “Girl Hunter” ballet from The Band Wagon, with Cyd Charisse vamping Fred Astaire, is played over the lover’s monologue from Last Year at Marienbad.
From Time ● Jan. 6, 2012
My uncle writes me that he has married the aforesaid celebrity, and as his digestion is still not as good as it might be, they have gone to Marienbad for their wedding trip.
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin
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