
Alain Resnais
Known for DirectingBorn 1922-06-03Died 2014-03-01Vannes, Morbihan, Bretagne, France
Alain Resnais (3 June 1922 – 1 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Night and Fog (1955), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps. Resnais began making feature films in the late 1950s and consolidated his early reputation with Hiroshima mon amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), and Muriel (1963), all of which adopted unconventional narrative techniques to deal with themes of troubled memory and the imagined past. These films were contemporary with, and associated with, the French New Wave (la nouvelle vague), though Resnais did not regard himself as being fully part of that movement. He had closer links to the "Left Bank" group of authors and filmmakers who shared a commitment to modernism and an interest in left-wing politics. He also established a regular practice of working on his films in collaboration with writers previously unconnected with the cinema such as Jean Cayrol, Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jorge Semprún and Jacques Sternberg. In later films, Resnais moved away from the overtly political topics of some previous works and developed his interests in an interaction between cinema and other cultural forms, including theatre, music, and comic books. This led to imaginative adaptations of plays by Alan Ayckbourn, Henri Bernstein and Jean Anouilh, as well as films featuring various kinds of popular song. His films frequently explore the relationship between consciousness, memory, and the imagination, and he was noted for devising innovative formal structures for his narratives. Throughout his career, he won many awards from international film festivals and academies. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alain Resnais, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more
Movies & web series
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Pictura
1951 · Movie
Visite à César Domela
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Visite à César Domela
1947 · Movie
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Alain Resnais, the Audacious
2022 · Movie
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Gershwin
1993 · Movie
Visit to Felix Labisse
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Visit to Felix Labisse
1947 · Movie
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Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022 · Movie
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Cinépanorama
1956 · Series
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The Song of Styrene
2022 · Movie
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Night and Fog
1956 · Movie
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Bacri, comme un air de famille
2022 · Movie
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The Lovely Month of May
1963 · Movie
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Smoking
1993 · Movie
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No Smoking
1993 · Movie
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Cinétracts
1968 · Movie
Portrait d’Henri Goetz
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Portrait d’Henri Goetz
1947 · Movie
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Tokyo Olympiad
1965 · Movie
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
1959 · Movie
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May Days
1978 · Movie
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Last Year at Marienbad
1961 · Movie
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Same Old Song
1997 · Movie
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Lest We Forget
1991 · Movie
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My American Uncle
1980 · Movie
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Far from Vietnam
1967 · Movie
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You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
2012 · Movie
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Mélo
1986 · Movie
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Sign of the Lion
1962 · Movie
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All the World's Memory
1956 · Movie
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Love Unto Death
1984 · Movie
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The Mystery of Workshop 15
1957 · Movie
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Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
1954 · Movie
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Aux frontières de l'Homme
1953 · Movie
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Muriel, or the Time of Return
1963 · Movie
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Private Fears in Public Places
2006 · Movie
Visite à Lucien Coutaud
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Visite à Lucien Coutaud
1947 · Movie
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Providence
1977 · Movie
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La Pointe Courte
1956 · Movie
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Smoking / No Smoking
1993 · Movie
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Statues Also Die
1953 · Movie
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Broadway by Light
1958 · Movie
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The Year 01
1973 · Movie
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The Devil's Envoys
1942 · Movie
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Van Gogh
1948 · Movie
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Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
1968 · Movie
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The War Is Over
1966 · Movie
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Gauguin
1950 · Movie
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Wild Grass
2009 · Movie
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Not on the Lips
2003 · Movie
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Stavisky...
1974 · Movie