Last Year at Marienbad (1961) Dir. Director: Alain Resnais Influenced by Surrealist art from Magritte’s enigmatic tableaux to de Chirico’s haunted cityscapes. It also draws on the evocative photography of Eugène Atget. Last Year at Marienbad resonates as well with the literary imagination of Adolfo Bioy Casares’ The Invention of Morel. Its looping sense of reality, fractured memory, and ambiguous narration shape a world where certainty dissolves. Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe‑Grillet constructed