Home Page	HOTEL MARIENBAD Last Year at Marianské Lazné The First Version of this Docufilm, entitled simply 'Last Year at Marianské Lazné' is already completed, and was premièred at the International New Novel Conference at Aberdeen University in April 1999. However, this film was in both French and English, unsubtitled, and destined predominantly for scholars. 'Hotel Marienbad', the final version of the Robbe- Grillet Docufilm™, including many more interviews and new elements, is currently in Post-Production. Return to the Living Time® Docufilms™ Main Page	Contact Us
	Still from Robbe-Grillet's first film 'Last Year at Marienbad' More About 'Hotel Marienbad' Alain Robbe-Grillet's visit to England in September of 1996 signalled the first stage of shooting for the film "Last Year at MarianskéLazn´". A video chronicle taken at the time covered key events during his visit: his arrival in London, his talk at the Oxford Conference on September 25th, his stay at the Institut français in London and his personal response to a request to talk about the way dreams are infused in his work and how he made the passage from being a novelist to being a film-maker. In addition to this, individual interviews were filmed both with Robbe-Grillet himself and a gathering of the key authorities on his work . The second stage of shooting for the film took place five months later in a town in the Czech Republic called Mariánské Lazné. This is the new name for the town, formerly within Germany and at that time called "Marienbad" - the fictitious, possible location of Alain Robbe-Grillet's first film Last Year at Marienbad made in collaboration with New Wave director Alain Resnais. This footage from Mariánské Lazné plays a pivotal role in the investigation of the realistic and non-realistic perspectives within Robbe-Grillet's work, written and filmic. These two periods of shooting (September 1996 and March 1997) provided the bulk of the footage utilized in the initial edit of the documentary, though the material used also included extracts from all of Robbe-Grillet's films and earlier interviews with him existing from the 70's and the 80's (e.g. with François Jost). The film developed its discussion of the relationship between Robbe-Grillet's literary and cinematic oeuvres in twelve sections, in a serial structure akin to that of his experimental "Eden and After", the twelve sections being: 01. Time and Space  02. The Text  03. The Image  04. Sound 05. Dreams  06. The Double  07. Woman 08.  The Labyrinth 09. Games  10. Order  11. Chance  12. Immortality However, even once "Last Year at Marianské Lazné" had been filmed, edited, screened and put on video, this was not the end of the 'Robbe-Grillet' project, as numerous further interviews were filmed with colleagues and friends of Robbe-Grillet, as well as with enthusiasts and critics of his work. These include: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Cuban Novelist) Bernard Henri-Levy (Philosopher, Novelist & Film-maker) Michel Fano (Composer - of all Robbe-Grillet's Scores) Robin Buss (Translator and Film Critic) et alia 'Hotel Marienbad', currently in Post-Production, combines these new interviews with footage shot at Editions de Minuit, heart of the 'New Novel' where ARG had an office as an editor at the beginning of his career. - Watch out for details on the Forthcoming Release of this film in the Summer of 2006.