Alain Resnais is read about 495 times a day, in 58 languages.
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Something wrong?He made films that fold time back on itself - memory unreliable, past and present bleeding together, narrative chopped and shuffled until consciousness itself becomes the subject. Hiroshima mon amour and Last Year at Marienbad rewrote what a movie could do to a viewer's sense of what's real.
A life in dates
You Ain't Seen Nothin' YetFilm, Director, Writer2007European Film Academy Critics AwardAward2003
Not on the LipsFilm, Director1998César Award for Best FilmAward1997Louis Delluc PrizeAward1994César Award for Best DirectorAwardCésar Award for Best FilmAward1993Louis Delluc PrizeAward
No SmokingFilm, 1993Director1987David di Donatello Luchino ViscontiAward1986
MéloFilm, Director, Writer1983
Life Is a Bed of RosesFilm, Director1981Honorary CésarAward1978César Award for Best DirectorAwardCésar Award for Best FilmAward
Ciné regardsSeries, 19781977
ProvidenceFilm, Director1973
The Year 01Film, Director1966Louis Delluc PrizeAward
The War Is OverFilm, 1966Director1963Sutherland TrophyAward1962
Sign of the LionFilm, Un Consommateur (uncredited)1961Golden LionAwardUnited Nations AwardsAward1958
The Song of StyreneFilm, Director1956
CinépanoramaSeries1953
Statues Also DieFilm, Director1948
Van GoghFilm, Director1942
The Devil's EnvoysFilm, Extra (uncredited)1922Born3 June 1922Photos 7
Filmography 40
BIBelmondo: The Incorrigible
BFBacri, comme un air de famille
AAAlain Resnais, the Audacious
LRLife of RileyYYYou Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
WGWild Grass
PPPrivate Fears in Public PlacesNLNot on the Lips
SSSame Old Song
SSSmoking / No SmokingNSNo Smoking
SMSmoking
LFLest We Forget
IHI Want to Go HomeMÉMélo
LDLove Unto DeathLRLife Is a Bed of Roses
MUMy American Uncle
MDMay DaysPRProvidence
STStavisky...TYThe Year 01
JAJe T'Aime, Je T'Aime
CICinétracts
FVFar from VietnamTOThe War Is Over
MRMuriel, or the Time of Return
TMThe Lovely Month of MaySLSign of the Lion
LMLast Year at Marienbad
HAHiroshima Mon AmourTSThe Song of Styrene
NFNight and Fog
AMAll the World's MemorySDStatues Also Die
GUGuernica
GAGauguinVGVan Gogh
VDVisite à Oscar DominguezTEThe Devil's Envoys73 credits on file
Television 2
CRCiné regardsCICinépanoramaAwards
In their orbit 2
About this person
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.
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