
Alain Resnais
Biography
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.
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Acting (7 movies)
Directing (42 movies)

Night and Fog
1959

Last Year at Marienbad
1961

Same Old Song
1997

Hiroshima Mon Amour
1959

The War Is Over
1966

Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
1968

Private Fears in Public Places
2006

Love Unto Death
1984

Stavisky...
1974

All the World's Memory
1956

Smoking / No Smoking
1993

Wild Grass
2009

Life Is a Bed of Roses
1983

Statues Also Die
1953

The Song of Styrene
1957

My American Uncle
1980

I Want to Go Home
1989

Against Oblivion
1991

Not on the Lips
2003

Muriel, or the Time of Return
1963

Providence
1977

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
2012

Mélo
1986

Guernica
1951

Their First Films
2004

Paul Gauguin
1949

Visite à Lucien Coutaud
1947

Visite à Félix Labisse
1947

Portrait d’Henri Goetz
1947

Visite à César Domela
1947

Life of Riley
2014

Visite à Oscar Dominguez
1947

Van Gogh
1948

Pictura
1951

The Mystery of Workshop 15
1957

Cinétracts
1968
Visite à Christine Boumeester
1947

Far from Vietnam
1967

Gershwin
1993

Visite à Hans Hartung
1947

Smoking
1993

No Smoking
1993
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Visite à Oscar Dominguez | 1947 | Writer |
| Mélo | 1986 | Writer |
| You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet | 2012 | Screenplay |






