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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Filmography
all 62
Movies 61
Director 45
self 6
Voice 1
TV Shows 1
Alain Resnais, l'audacieux (2022)
The Song of Styrene (2022)
Bacri, comme un air de famille (2022)
Dans les oreilles d'Alain Resnais (2019)
Life of Riley (2014)
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012)
Wild Grass (2009)
Dans le labyrinthe de Marienbad (2009)
Propos d'Alain Resnais (2007)
Private Fears in Public Places (2006)
Hiroshima: The Time of Return (2005)
Their First Films (2004)
Not on the Lips (2003)
Same Old Song (1997)
Smoking / No Smoking (1993)
No Smoking (1993)
Smoking (1993)
Gershwin (1993)
Against Oblivion (1991)
I Want to Go Home (1989)
Mélo (1986)
Love Unto Death (1984)
El misteri dels cines desapareguts (1984)
Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)
My American Uncle (1980)
May Days (1978)
Providence (1977)
Stavisky... (1974)
The Year 01 (1973)
Cinétracts (1968)
Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime (1968)
Far from Vietnam (1967)
The War Is Over (1966)
Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963)
The Lovely Month of May (1963)
Sign of the Lion (1962)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
Broadway by Light (1958)
The Mystery of Workshop 15 (1957)
All the World's Memory (1956)
Night and Fog (1956)
Cinépanorama (1956)
La Pointe Courte (1956)
A Visit (1955)
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances (1954)
Statues Also Die (1953)
Guernica (1951)
Pictura (1951)
Paul Gauguin (1949)
Van Gogh (1948)
Paris Nineteen Hundred (1948)
Christine Boomeester (1947)
Visite à Hans Hartung (1947)
Visite à Christine Boumeester (1947)
Portrait d’Henri Goetz (1947)
Visite à Oscar Dominguez (1947)
Visite à César Domela (1947)
Visite à Félix Labisse (1947)
Visite à Lucien Coutaud (1947)
The Devil's Envoys (1942)
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GenderMale
Birthday1922-06-03
Deathday2014-03-01 (91 years old)
Birth NameAlain Pierre Marie Jean Georges Resnais
Birth PlaceVannes, France
Religionatheism
RelationshipsFlorence Malraux (1969-01-01 - 1980-01-01), Sabine Azéma (1998-01-01 - 2014-03-01)
SpouseFlorence Malraux
CitizenshipsFrance
Also Known As알랭 레네, Ален Рене, 亞倫·雷奈, アラン・レネ, 알랭 르네
AwardsJean-Le-Duc award, Sutherland Trophy, David Luchino Visconti, United Nations Awards, European Film Academy Critics Award, Golden Lion, César Award for Best Director, Louis Delluc Prize, Honorary César, César Award for Best Film
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