Alain Resnais

Alain Resnais

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.

  • Popularity : 6.335
  • Known For : Directing
  • Birthday : 1922-06-03
  • Place of Birth : Vannes, Morbihan, Bretagne, France
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Alain Resnais Movies

  • 1942
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    The Devil's Envoys

    The Devil's Envoys

    6.871 1942 HD

    At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the Devil to a castle to seduce its inhabitants.

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  • 2022
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    Alain Resnais, l'audacieux

    Alain Resnais, l'audacieux

    8.5 2022 HD

    A genius inventor of forms, Alain Resnais is one of the fathers of cinematic modernity. This portrait, rich in archives, looks back on the career of...

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  • 1978
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    May Days

    May Days

    7 1978 HD

    Filmmaker William Klein documents the Paris student riots that occurred in May of 1968.

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  • 2022
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    Bacri, comme un air de famille

    Bacri, comme un air de famille

    7.6 2022 HD

    Jean-Pierre Bacri was never happy about anything. But beyond the caricature of the grumpy man, from his apprenticeship years to his death in January...

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  • 2005
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    Hiroshima: The Time of Return

    Hiroshima: The Time of Return

    1 2005 HD

    Luc Lagier puts Alain Resnais' film back in its historical context and in the filmmaker's biography. He tells the story, then the development of what...

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  • 1963
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    The Lovely Month of May

    The Lovely Month of May

    8 1963 HD

    Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and...

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  • 2007
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    Propos d'Alain Resnais

    Propos d'Alain Resnais

    1 2007 HD

    Audio interview with Alain Resnais

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  • 2019
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    Dans les oreilles d'Alain Resnais

    Dans les oreilles d'Alain Resnais

    1 2019 HD

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  • 1962
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    Sign of the Lion

    Sign of the Lion

    6.9 1962 HD

    An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing...

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  • 1959
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    Night and Fog

    Night and Fog

    8.224 1959 HD

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  • 1961
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    Last Year at Marienbad

    Last Year at Marienbad

    7.4 1961 HD

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  • 1997
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    Same Old Song

    Same Old Song

    7.018 1997 HD

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  • 1959
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    Hiroshima Mon Amour

    Hiroshima Mon Amour

    7.7 1959 HD

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  • 1966
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    The War Is Over

    The War Is Over

    6.4 1966 HD

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  • 1968
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    Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime

    Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime

    6.5 1968 HD

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  • 2006
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    Private Fears in Public Places

    Private Fears in Public Places

    6.385 2006 HD

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  • 1984
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    Love Unto Death

    Love Unto Death

    6.7 1984 HD

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  • 1974
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    Stavisky...

    Stavisky...

    6.163 1974 HD

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  • 1956
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    All the World's Memory

    All the World's Memory

    7 1956 HD

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  • 1993
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    Smoking / No Smoking

    Smoking / No Smoking

    6.4 1993 HD

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  • 2009
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    Wild Grass

    Wild Grass

    6.013 2009 HD

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  • 2009
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    Wild Grass

    Wild Grass

    6.013 2009 HD

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  • 1983
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    Life Is a Bed of Roses

    Life Is a Bed of Roses

    5.7 1983 HD

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  • 1953
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    Statues Also Die

    Statues Also Die

    6.7 1953 HD

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  • 1957
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    The Song of Styrene

    The Song of Styrene

    6.2 1957 HD

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  • 1980
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    My American Uncle

    My American Uncle

    7 1980 HD

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  • 1989
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    I Want to Go Home

    I Want to Go Home

    4.9 1989 HD

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  • 1991
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    Against Oblivion

    Against Oblivion

    6.5 1991 HD

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  • 2003
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    Not on the Lips

    Not on the Lips

    5.8 2003 HD

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  • 1956
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    La Pointe Courte

    La Pointe Courte

    6.9 1956 HD

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  • 1963
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    Muriel, or the Time of Return

    Muriel, or the Time of Return

    6.704 1963 HD

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  • 1977
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    Providence

    Providence

    6.8 1977 HD

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  • 2012
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    You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

    You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

    6.565 2012 HD

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  • 2012
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    You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

    You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

    6.565 2012 HD

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  • 1986
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    Mélo

    Mélo

    6.9 1986 HD

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  • 1951
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    Guernica

    Guernica

    5.9 1951 HD

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  • 2004
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    Their First Films

    Their First Films

    1 2004 HD

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  • 1949
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    Paul Gauguin

    Paul Gauguin

    6 1949 HD

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  • 1965
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    Tokyo Olympiad

    Tokyo Olympiad

    7.8 1965 HD

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  • 1947
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    Portrait d’Henri Goetz

    Portrait d’Henri Goetz

    1 1947 HD

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  • 1947
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    Visite à César Domela

    Visite à César Domela

    1 1947 HD

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  • 1947
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    Visite à Félix Labisse

    Visite à Félix Labisse

    1 1947 HD

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  • 1947
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    Visite à Lucien Coutaud

    Visite à Lucien Coutaud

    1 1947 HD

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  • 1973
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    The Year 01

    The Year 01

    6.5 1973 HD

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  • 2014
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    Life of Riley

    Life of Riley

    5.2 2014 HD

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  • 1947
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    Visite à Oscar Dominguez

    Visite à Oscar Dominguez

    5 1947 HD

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  • 1947
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    Visite à Oscar Dominguez

    Visite à Oscar Dominguez

    5 1947 HD

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  • 1948
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    Van Gogh

    Van Gogh

    6.667 1948 HD

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  • 1954
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    Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances

    Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances

    1 1954 HD

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  • 1948
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    Paris Nineteen Hundred

    Paris Nineteen Hundred

    5.3 1948 HD

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  • 1948
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    Paris Nineteen Hundred

    Paris Nineteen Hundred

    5.3 1948 HD

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  • 1951
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    Pictura

    Pictura

    1 1951 HD

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  • 1957
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    The Mystery of Workshop 15

    The Mystery of Workshop 15

    6 1957 HD

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  • 2009
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    Wild Grass

    Wild Grass

    6.013 2009 HD

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  • 1968
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    Cinétracts

    Cinétracts

    8 1968 HD

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  • 1953
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    Statues Also Die

    Statues Also Die

    6.7 1953 HD

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  • 1986
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    Mélo

    Mélo

    6.9 1986 HD

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  • 1958
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    Broadway by Light

    Broadway by Light

    6.7 1958 HD

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  • 1947
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    Visite à Christine Boumeester

    Visite à Christine Boumeester

    1 1947 HD

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  • 1959
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    Night and Fog

    Night and Fog

    8.224 1959 HD

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  • 1947
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    Christine Boomeester

    Christine Boomeester

    1 1947 HD

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  • 1984
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    El misteri dels cines desapareguts

    El misteri dels cines desapareguts

    1 1984 HD

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  • 1957
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    The Song of Styrene

    The Song of Styrene

    6.2 1957 HD

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  • 1956
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    All the World's Memory

    All the World's Memory

    7 1956 HD

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  • 1967
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    Far from Vietnam

    Far from Vietnam

    7 1967 HD

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  • 1993
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    Gershwin

    Gershwin

    1 1993 HD

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  • 1947
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    Visite à Hans Hartung

    Visite à Hans Hartung

    2 1947 HD

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  • 1993
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    Smoking

    Smoking

    7.25 1993 HD

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  • 1993
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    No Smoking

    No Smoking

    7.6 1993 HD

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  • 1956
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    Cinépanorama

    Cinépanorama

    8 1956 HD

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