from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet.
Plot: In an ornate baroque hotel populated by wealthy individuals and couples who socialize with each other, a man approaches a woman and claims they met the year before at a similar resort (perhaps at Frederiksbad, Karlstadt, Marienbad, or Baden-Salsa) and had a romantic relationship, but she responded to his request to run away together by asking him to wait a year, which time has now elapsed. The woman insists she has never met the man, so he proceeds to attempt to remind her of their shared past, while she rebuffs him and contradicts his account. Between interactions with the woman, a second man, who may be the woman’s husband, asserts his dominance over the first man by repeatedly beating him at a mathematical game (a version of Nim).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Year_at_Marienbad
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What if Alain Renais directed a TV ad for cigarettes?
What if Alain Renais directed a TV ad for cigarettes? He didn’t, but he could have directed this curious 60s ad! “I think we ought to talk about it,” indeed. Actually, the clothing and setting indicate it’s a spoof of “Last Year at Marienbad” (L’Année dernière à Marienbad), the 1961 French film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Fans hail it as a masterpiece of the French New Wave, while detractors call it incomprehensible gibberish.