Last Year in Marienbad (L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad) (1961)

 

This French New Wave cinema from 1961, about a man and woman in a hotel trying to sync their memories of their meeting (or not) a year earlier, will either infuriate or mesmerise you depending on whether you are someone who might appreciate floating dream-like through the austere and quiet Marienbad hotel with its endless corridors with carpets so thick that all sound escapes the ear and its endless corridors with carpets so thick that all sound escapes the ear and its endless corridors with carpets so thick that all sound escapes the ear...or if you are someone who prefers Arnold Schwarzenegger action and care less about sublime cinematics and poetry, give "Last Year in Marienbad" a miss. 

★★★★☆

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Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)

Surely, anyone who loves this movie must a) have not read the book by Capote, and/or b) actually be extrapolating their love of Audrey Hepburn and wrongly concluding that they also love the movie, because a) the movie cheats on some of the book's most endearing qualities (including the ending and the nature of the leads' relationship); b) the movie is lethargic, ugly, and racist; and c) the lead male a bore.

★★☆☆☆

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