In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.
Cinematography
Those endless tracking shots down identical corridors.
Direction
Resnais turns architecture into psychological warfare.
Writing
Robbe-Grillet's script: did they meet? Does it matter?
Director
Alain Resnais
Delphine Seyrig
A – The Brunette Woman
Giorgio Albertazzi
X – The man with the Italian Accent
Sacha Pitoëff
M – The Other Man with the Lean Face, The Husband
Françoise Spira
A Character from the Hotel
Pierre Barbaud
A Character from the Hotel
Jean Lanier
A Character from the Hotel
Gilles Quéant
A Character from the Hotel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Resnais and Robbe-Grillet famously disagreed on what happens; the script's ambiguity was intentional warfare between them.
The chateau's endless corridors inspired everything from The Shining's Overlook to video game liminal spaces.
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