This is a film I remembered well but hadn't been widely available on DVD until the excellent Criterion edition that was recently released. The VHS release was of horrendous quality, with illegible subtitling. A DVD release did occur, but it was withdrawn almost immediately and was way too expensive for proles such as myself. This affordable release is of the quality one would expect from the Criterion folks. The print is excellent and now one can read the subtitles. Not that it will help solve the puzzle of the film itself. I just read the memoirs of Bob Dylan's early 60s girlfriend, Suze Rotolo. In the book she tells of seeing the film with Dylan, who remarked that a shot was missing from the end of the film- that the camera should pull back to reveal a sign that says "Marienbad Insane Asylum"!
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