Considered by many to be Renais' magnum opus, L'Année Dernière à Marienbad, is a work of fantasy and experiment in line with the French New Wave films of the 50's and 60's. Renais and co-writer, Alain Robbe-Grillet seem less concerned with the conventional use of character and more interested in the intellectual preoccupations of man.

The film consists of a series of memories from a man holidaying at an enchanting European hotel. When a woman seems not to recognize him, he reveals that they had spent some time together the year before, and that now he has come for her. However, the presence of another man in the hotel complicates matters...