The Beyond: Footprints on the Moon

“I have never stayed so long anywhere,” says Delphine Seyrig’s “A” in Alain Resnais’s enigmatic 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad. She can’t recall meeting Giorgio Albertazzi’s “X” at the same château the previous year, but her words capture the film’s disorienting sense of time and place. X’s pursuit of A is a reminder that the past often…