Niekończące się korytarze. Paradoksy architektury w filmie „Zeszłego roku w Marienbadzie” Alaina Resnais’go
Endless Corridors. The Paradoxes of Architecture in „Last Year in Marienbad” by Alain Resnais

Summary/Abstract: As it has been underlined in numerous analyses, complex spaces of palaces and parks, which are the setting of "Last Year in Marienbad", play the role of a significant background and sophisticated scenography; they become a vital theme of the film, suggest important interpretations and are decisive for the unobvious psychological makeup of the main characters. A more detailed analysis of Resnais’s film allows to indicate the key paradoxes governing both architectural and narrative structures, as well as their mutual interrelations. The space created in the film is at the same time continuous and interrupted, closed and open, finite and infinite, dynamic and static, flat and powerfully accentuating the illusion of perspective and depth. These paradoxes are also characteristic of Baroque art, and the fact that Resnais’s film was shot in such spaces allows to perceive it as a theoretical utterance, concerning also the relations between cinema and architecture. Last Year in Marienbad treats these two branches of art not so much as opposing, but rather complementary, facing similar desires and limitations.

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