8 - 31 July. A cinematic puzzle and hypnotically dreamlike, Resnais' Last Year in Marienbad is a surrealist parody of Hollywood melodrama, a high-fashion romance with a dark, alien underbelly.

The plot is banal and, as in Hiroshima, the characters have no names. X (Albertazzi) pursues A (Seyrig) through the endless corridors of a luxury hotel, trying to persuade her that they met last year, while M (Pitoëff), who may be A's husband, looks on. But, in the eternal present of Robbe-Grillet's screenplay, drenched in the organ score by Francis Seyrig (brother of Delphine), there can be no 'last year' (and probably no future either). Don't miss the chance to see this timeless masterpiece on the big screen, for which the inky blacks and flaring whites of Sacha Vierny's cinematography were made. There is, quite simply, no other movie like it.

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COMPETITION: Win 2x Pair of tickets to attend Alain Resnais: ‘Last Year in Marienbad’ at the BFI Southbank at 20:30 on Thursday, 14th July.

To claim your tickets, send an email to Vienna at competitions@run-riot.com with the correct answer in the ‘subject’ box. The winner will be randomly selected.

Q: Last Year at Marienbad begins with a postulate of memory and perspective. A handsome stranger, X (Giorgio Albertazzi) encounters an alluring socialite, A (Delphine Seyrig) at a grand, baroque hotel and, captivated by her, attempts to convince the reluctant object of his desire that they have met before - that it was, in fact, precisely a year earlier at a luxury resort similar to Marienbad, perhaps, in Fredericksburg or Baden-Salsa. X explains that A was then unable (or unwilling) to separate from her enigmatic and forbidding lover, possible husband (Sacha Pitoëff). But what letter is given to Sacha Pitoëff's character?

A: .1) M .2) W .3) Y .4) N