Nominated for 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 5 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
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The film's dreamlike cadences, frozen tableaux, and distilled surrealist poetry are too eerie, too terrifying even, to be shaken off as camp. For all its notoriety, this masterpiece among masterpieces has never really received its due.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
15 Jan 2008
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The movie is what it is -- a sustained mood, an empty allegory, a choreographed moment outside of time, and a shocking intimation of perfection.
– J. Hoberman,
Village Voice,
15 Jan 2008
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Remains one of cinema's glorious enigmas, endlessly compelling and intriguing.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Feb 2008
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Marienbad is elegantly hermetic, a ravishing waxworks that has stillness at its heart.
– Mark Feeney,
Boston Globe,
29 Feb 2008
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To even talk of a story is nonsensical, since a central aesthetic of the film involves the effects of fantasy, time and subjective memory on human consciousness. Marienbad takes place in a heightened, sci-fi nightmare world where knowing, believing