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# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:57:59.444Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Alain Resnais trained as a film editor in the mid-1940s, then spent a decade directing short films before Night and Fog in 1956 — a documentary about Nazi concentration camps that became a reference point for how to show atrocity. He moved to features in the late 1950s, pulling in novelists like Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet who'd never written for cinema, and together they built Hiroshima mon amour, Last Year at Marienbad, Muriel, and Je t'aime, je t'aime — films that cracked open chronology and made troubled memory the architecture. Linked to the Left Bank group more than the New Wave proper, he shared their modernism and their politics but kept his own route. Later he turned toward theatre, music, comic books — adapting Alan Ayckbourn plays, weaving in popular song, moving away from overt politics into formal play. He worked for more than sixty years, won an Oscar and two Césars, and died in 2014 having changed what film grammar allows.