Alain Resnais

About

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...

Known for

Night and FogMovie • 1956Last Year at MarienbadMovie • 1961Hiroshima Mon AmourMovie • 1959Stavisky...Movie • 1974Muriel, or the Time of ReturnMovie • 1963Life Is a Bed of RosesMovie • 1983ProvidenceMovie • 1977The Devil's EnvoysMovie • 1942MéloMovie • 1986My American UncleMovie • 1980The War Is OverMovie • 1966The Year 01Movie • 1973Je T'Aime, Je T'AimeMovie • 1968Private Fears in Public PlacesMovie • 2006Far from VietnamMovie • 1967Van GoghMovie • 1948La Pointe CourteMovie • 1956I Want to Go HomeMovie • 1989Love Unto DeathMovie • 1984Wild GrassMovie • 2009All the World's MemoryMovie • 1956Same Old SongMovie • 1997GuernicaMovie • 1951Sign of the LionMovie • 1962