While I was in Park City, Film Forum hosted a two-week run of Last Year at Marienbad, Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet’s high-design, dream-like classic about the reunion of a man and woman who may or may not have had an affair the previous summer. The Playlist hit one of the last screenings before the print hit the road for rep houses around the country (check your local listings blah blah blah), and was reminded of the music video for the 1994 Blur song, “To The End”. I was a huge Blur fan in the mid-90s, but didn’t see Marienbad until 1999 or so, so that’s my excuse for never having made the connection. But The Playlist is right––”To The End” is “a direct pastiche homage” to Marienbad, except in many ways, a music video is a much more ideal format than a feature film for the elliptical tyle and nebulous substance that’s being borrowed.

See the video above; there’s a clip from Marienbad at The Playlist for comparison.