Actor best known for his role as X in Alain Resnais’s Last Year in Marienbad
Of the 40 or so film appearances by Giorgio Albertazzi, the Italian actor-manager, who has died aged 92, the best known was his unsettling role as X in Alain Resnais’s L’Année Dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad, 1961). In the surreal film, set in a dreamlike hotel, Albertazzi plays a man who claims to have had a relationship with a woman, A, and who has come to take her away from her husband, M (Sacha Pitoëff), 12 months later, as she asked him to. But A (Delphine Seyrig) appears to have no recollection of this.
The film won the Golden Lion at Venice that year, after which Albertazzi also appeared in two Joseph Losey films: Eva (1962) and The Assassination of Trotsky (1972). His first hit on TV had been in 1959 in The Idiot and he was...
Of the 40 or so film appearances by Giorgio Albertazzi, the Italian actor-manager, who has died aged 92, the best known was his unsettling role as X in Alain Resnais’s L’Année Dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad, 1961). In the surreal film, set in a dreamlike hotel, Albertazzi plays a man who claims to have had a relationship with a woman, A, and who has come to take her away from her husband, M (Sacha Pitoëff), 12 months later, as she asked him to. But A (Delphine Seyrig) appears to have no recollection of this.
The film won the Golden Lion at Venice that year, after which Albertazzi also appeared in two Joseph Losey films: Eva (1962) and The Assassination of Trotsky (1972). His first hit on TV had been in 1959 in The Idiot and he was...
- 6/10/2016
- by John Francis Lane
- The Guardian - Film News
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