- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- June 3, 1922
- Place of Birth
- Vannes, Morbihan, Bretagne, France
- Died
- March 1, 2014
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 mo…
Filmography
movieAlain Resnais, the Audacious
2022 · Self (archive footage)
movieBelmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
movieBacri, comme un air de famille
2022 · Self (archive footage)
movieMorceaux de Cannes
2021
movieIn the Ears of Alain Resnais
2019 · Self (archive footage)
movieLife of Riley
2014 · Director
movieYou Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
2012 · Screenplay, Director
movieWild Grass
2009 · Director
Propos d'Alain Resnais
moviePropos d'Alain Resnais
2007 · Self (voice)
moviePrivate Fears in Public Places
2006 · Director
Hiroshima: The Time of Return
movieHiroshima: The Time of Return
2005 · (voice)
movieTheir First Films
2004 · Director
movieNot on the Lips
2003 · Director
movieSame Old Song
1997 · Director
movieSmoking / No Smoking
1993 · Director
movieSmoking
1993 · Director
movieNo Smoking
1993 · Director
movieGershwin
1993 · Director
movieLest We Forget
1991 · Director
movieI Want to Go Home
1989 · Director
movieMélo
1986 · Director, Writer
movieLove Unto Death
1984 · Director
movieEl misteri dels cines desapareguts
1984 · Thanks
movieLife Is a Bed of Roses
1983 · Director
movieMy American Uncle
1980 · Director
movieMay Days
1978 · Self
movieProvidence
1977 · Director
movieStavisky...
1974 · Director
movieThe Year 01
1973 · Co-Director
movieCinétracts
1968 · Director
movieJe T'Aime, Je T'Aime
1968 · Director
movieFar from Vietnam
1967 · Director
movieThe War Is Over
1966 · Director
movieTokyo Olympiad
1965 · Thanks
movieMuriel, or the Time of Return
1963 · Director
movieThe Lovely Month of May
1963 · Self (uncredited)
movieSign of the Lion
1962 · Un Consommateur (uncredited)
movieLast Year at Marienbad
1961 · Director
movieHiroshima Mon Amour
1959 · Director
movieThe Song of Styrene
1958 · Director, Editor
movieBroadway by Light
1958 · Technical Advisor
movieThe Mystery of Workshop 15
1957 · Director
movieAll the World's Memory
1956 · Director, Editor
movieNight and Fog
1956 · Director, Editor
tvCinépanorama
1956 · Self
movieLa Pointe Courte
1956 · Editor
movieSaint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
1954 · Editor
movieStatues Also Die
1953 · Director, Editor
movieAux frontières de l'Homme
1953 · Editor
movieGuernica
1951 · Director
moviePictura
1951 · Director
movieGauguin
1950 · Director
movieVan Gogh
1948 · Director
movieParis 1900
1948 · Editor, Assistant Director, Assistant Production Coordinator, Researcher
movieVisite à Hans Hartung
1947 · Director
Visite à Christine Boumeester
movieVisite à Christine Boumeester
1947 · Director
Visite à Lucien Coutaud
movieVisite à Lucien Coutaud
1947 · Director
Visit to Felix Labisse
movieVisit to Felix Labisse
1947 · Director
Portrait d’Henri Goetz
moviePortrait d’Henri Goetz
1947 · Director
Visite à César Domela
movieVisite à César Domela
1947 · Director
movieVisite à Oscar Dominguez
1947 · Director, Writer
movieThe Devil's Envoys
1942 · Extra (uncredited)