From 1963. This was one of the most successful avant garde films done in an era when experimentation was in the air. He had previously jolted the world of cinema with Hiroshima Mon Amour and Marienbad. This film deals with memory...it's fractured nature, it's persistence in driving current and future events and the inability of people to break free of its constraints.
This was quite engaging as an intellectual exercise...less so as pure cinema. He made little effort to make us care about his characters...they were illustrations, avatars, for his ideas. The human interactions weren't true-to-life. People switched moods in an instant, several times in one conversation, got up abruptly and left a dinner party. The editing scheme was fractured...like memory itself.
He is still working, at an advanced age, and is still tweaking our minds if not our hearts in his fascinating dissection of the human animal.
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