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Last Year At Marienbad (Alan Resnais, 1961) | FUSION

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FUSION, Berklee’s global arts magazine, publishes writing in all genres, photography, video, and music by students, faculty, staff, and alumni from across the U.S. and our international communities. We feature distinguished guest artists, including three U.S. Poet Laureates, a U.K. Poet Laureate, National Book Award finalists, and writers whose awards include NEA, NEH, Guggenheim, and MacArthur fellowships, a PEN Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.

From The Cineaste A place, though visible, is like a ghost of memories. Even memories one forgets linger in the space in which they occurred. Here within the expanse of vaulted ceilings, doorways leading to more doors, hallways leading to more halls, the faintest recollections absorb over time; no act will wholly evanesce. Wander over the carpets and marble floors, and the echoes of bygone eras endure, wafting through corridors like a perfume pulsing on a woman’s neck. What should one make of what happens or doesn’t through a night between lovers? And if the space awakens in a…

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