Influence
The impact of L'Année dernière à Marienbad upon other film-makers has been widely recognised and variously illustrated, extending from French directors such as Agnès Varda, Marguerite Duras, and Jacques Rivette to international figures like Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini. Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and David Lynch's Inland Empire are two films which are cited with particular frequency as showing the influence of Marienbad.
Peter Greenaway said that Marienbad had been the most important influence upon his own film-making (and he himself established a close working relationship with its cinematographer Sacha Vierny).
The film's visual style has also been imitated in many TV commercials and fashion photography.
The music video for "To the End", a 1994 single by British rock group Blur, is based on the film.
This film was the main inspiration for Karl Lagerfeld's Chanel Spring-Summer 2011 collection. Lagerfeld's show was complete with a fountain and a modern replica of the film's famous garden. Since costumes for this film were done by Coco Chanel, Lagerfeld drew his inspiration from the film and combined the film's gardens with those at Versailles.
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