Last Year at Marienbad

Alain Renais' Last Year at Marienbad makes an excellent companion piece to his 1959 masterpiece, Hiroshima, Mon Amor. I say companion piece because they both seem to compliment each other. If you were to play one after the other, in some ways, it would be difficult to tell when one ends and the other begins. Thematically they are both very similar in their dealings with the frailty and even unreliability of the human memory. It's a fascinating and very calculated film. The interesting thing about his films, though, is that, it seems, in order to fully understand one, you have to see some of his others, but I'm not sure in which order you should start.