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I'm going to go out on a limb Papillon and guess that what you dislike about typical new wave are the characters, or the way they're (not clearly) developed? For instance, have you seen Breathless? I have a friend who can't stand Godard or Trouffout because of their simultaneous detachment and dependence on character, the way we're forced to observe them as objects but the film's message often relies on some kind of emotional attachment to them.
Last Year at Marienbad is less about who the characters are and more about a collective human consciousness, the bizzareness of memory, the frailty of human relationship. I would agree with Fotunato that what Resnais is drawing on for 'Marienbad' is something far older and more complex than new wave tradition, something more along the lines of surrealism. What's interesting here is that surrealism is stretched and shaken to be less about distorting reality and more about understanding its delicacy.
I would encourage you to give the film a try- it is a bit slow-moving, but its never dull. At an hour-and-a-half, your mind will be plenty busy trying to figure out the strange puzzles of the film. As a plus, I'd even go so far as to call it a pseudo-horror film; it toys around with the ideas of ghosts (these ghosts are much more real, though) and there are wicked surprises found as the story unfolds.
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