To The End In Marienbad

Blur's 'To The End' had a stunning video, directed by David Mould, which drew extensively on Alain Resais's notorious puzzle-piece film, Last Year in Marienbad (1960). This video returns the favor, reverse engineering Mould's video using actual Marienbad footage.
Mould's video featured Blur's Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon in their pomp, and a gamine model, Amanda Doyle (who's often been misidentified as Stereolabs's Laetitia Sadier, who did To The End's French backing voice) as the 'mystery woman' in an uncertain love triangle.
Doyle [http://tinyurl.com/83vate3], Albarn, and Coxon make an incredibly pretty trio (one that's significantly more youthful and charming than Resnais's), and in Mould's hands a warm, romantic, fast-paced, relatively conventionally arc-ed (cynics might say, 'Tatler-ific') confection emerges. While its influence on things like The Shining is clear, Marienbad is now mostly ignored and forgotten, and mocked to the extent that it's not. It's a 'classic' mostly in the Twainian sense: many more people want to have seen than actually want to see it.
Blur's/Mould's video in 1994 changed the equation for Marienbad, at least to some degree, not least because it suggested that Marienbad would have been much easier to take without its unpleasant, mostly organ score. If, say, Herrmann, or Badalamenti, or, yes, even Blur had scored Marienbad, things could have been very different for the film over time.
At any rate, in my view To The End is one of the best songs of the '90s, and its vid. is a marvel of the smartypants/art-school side of pop.
I hope that my vid. stimulates discussion about actual and possible relations between pop culture and high art culture, and it should help build the audience in both directions: film snobs (you know who you are) should listen to Blur if they haven't already, and Blur-fans now have even more of a pathway into one of the most arduous of art-films. [2019 note: I'd like to thank Blur & the other rights-holders for allowing this video to remain 'up' for the last 7 years.]