Rita/Delphine

Not to keep harping on this Last Year At Marienbad disc, but its existence does give one the opportunity to see if there really is a shot-by-shot pastiche from Gilda in it, which there is not. However, Marienbad's bedroom confrontations between Delphine Seyrig's X and Sacha Pitoeff's M are clear homages to GIlda's portentous boudoir chat between Rita Hayworth's title femme and George McReady's Mundson. To wit: 

and then...

One can't really imagine two more different kinds of screen beauties that Hayworth and Seyrig, can one?

Comments

[D Cairns]

So where did the shot-for-shot recreation idea originate? I thought it came from Resnais himself. gee, you mean the filmmaker LIED? An unheard-of thing!
Interesting how everybody's just been repeating it for years. Thanks for clearing this up.

[jbryant]

D. Cairns: I put the blame on Mame.