Synopsis

At a social gathering at a château, a man approaches a woman. He claims they met the year before at Marienbad and is convinced she is "waiting here" for him.

The woman insists they have never met. A second man, who may or may not be the woman's husband, repeatedly asserts his dominance over the first man (including, significantly, by beating him several times at Nim).



Through ambiguous flashbacks and disorientating shifts of time and location, the film explores the relationships between the characters.

Conversations and events are repeated in several places in the château and grounds, and there are numerous tracking shots of the château's corridors, with ambiguous voiceovers.

The characters are unnamed in the film; in the published screenplay, the woman is referred to as "A", the first man is "X", and the man who may be her husband is "M".

Cast:  Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff