rajeev@sftri.UUCP (S.Rajeev) (05/04/85)
> ``Night and Fog'' (``Nuit et brouillard,'' 1955) is still the most powerful > film on the concentration camp experience. > I'm afraid this note has nothing to do with "Night and Fog", but with Alain Resnais. I have seen only two of his movies, and they were, to me, diametrically opposite: "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" and "Last Year at Marienbad". The former was a searing, troubling, intensely personal movie of a brief romance between a French actress and a Japanese journalist in Hiroshima. The latter was a triumph of form over content -- the only reason I did not fall asleep watching it was that they repeated all the dialogue (in French) twice and so slowly that I could understand it. There is only one other movie that comes to mind that was as sterile and pointless in its pursuit of style: "The Draughtsman's Contract". Was Resnais trying to make a point with "Marienbad"? Some of you Resnais fans out there (I am one too, on the strength of "Hiroshima") -- please comment. -- ...ihnp4!attunix!rajeev -- usenet ihnp4!attunix!rajeev@BERKELEY -- arpanet Sri Rajeev, SF 1-342, ATT Info. Sys., Summit, NJ 07901. (201)-522-6330.