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Alain Resnais

Born June 3, 1922 (1922-06-03) (age 86)
Vannes, Morbihan, Bretagne, France
Years active 1936 - present

Alain Resnais (born June 3, 1922 in Vannes, France) is a French film director whose early works are often grouped within the New Wave or Nouvelle Vague film movement. Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Vannes (Gwened is a town and commune located in the Morbihan département, in Brittany, in the west of France. Morbihan (Mor-Bihan is a department in the northwest of France named after the Morbihan ( small sea in Breton) the enclosed sea that is the This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The year 1936 in film involved some significant events Events Nov 6 - first Porky Pig animated cartoon Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Vannes (Gwened is a town and commune located in the Morbihan département, in Brittany, in the west of France. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. "Nouvelle Vague" redirects here For the music group of the same name see Nouvelle Vague (band. "Nouvelle Vague" redirects here For the music group of the same name see Nouvelle Vague (band. Although he has had a long and fruitful career, Resnais is best known internationally for three of his early works: Night and Fog (1955), Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), and L'Année Dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) (1961). Night and Fog ( Nuit et brouillard) is a 1955 Documentary film about the Nazi Concentration camps. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Hiroshima Mon Amour is an acclaimed 1959 drama / Romance film by French Film director Alain Resnais, with The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. L'année dernière à Marienbad (translated as Last Year in Marienbad in the UK and Last Year at Marienbad in North L'année dernière à Marienbad (translated as Last Year in Marienbad in the UK and Last Year at Marienbad in North Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

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Career

Resnais began making films in the mid-1940s after completing his studies at L`Institut hautes études cinématographiques. L'Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (the "Institute for the Advanced Cinematographic Studies" is a French film school founded during World War II He made several short films during this time, such as Guernica (1950), based on the Picasso painting and the town and battle that inspired it. Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso (October 25 1881 &ndash April 8 1973 Guernica is a monumental Painting by Pablo Picasso, depicting the Nazi German Bombing of Guernica, Spain by twenty-eight His seminal short Night and Fog (1955) was one of the first documentaries about the Jewish Holocaust. Night and Fog ( Nuit et brouillard) is a 1955 Documentary film about the Nazi Concentration camps. Resnais chose to approach the subject indirectly because he felt an excess of gruesome imagery might make the Holocaust seem unreal and incomprehensible to his viewers. The Holocaust (from the Greek el ''ὁλόκαυστον'' (el-Latn holókauston holos, "completely" and kaustos, "burnt" also known as Instead he chose to film the empty concentration camps as they appeared in the fifties and avoided using stock footage of the actual holocaust until the very end of the film. The form of the film was revolutionary at the time and has been imitated many times since.

Resnais' most famous feature films also use innovative techniques to explore the subjectivity of memory in dealing with past violence and horrors. He completed his first full-length film, Hiroshima, Mon Amour based on the novel by Marguerite Duras, in 1959. Hiroshima Mon Amour is an acclaimed 1959 drama / Romance film by French Film director Alain Resnais, with Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras (maʀgəʁit dyˈʁas in French ( April 4, 1914 – March 3, 1996) was a French It is a romantic drama about a young French actress appearing in an anti-war film in the rubble and reconstruction of the city of Hiroshima. She quickly begins a brief unstable affair with a Japanese architect. The affair brings to light the political and cultural tensions that underlie even their most personal experiences and memories. The film made groundbreaking use of then innovative flashbacks to explore her repressed memories of a German lover killed in World War 2 and the subsequent humiliation and captivity imposed on her by her family. This movie was a great success for Resnais, garnering him international fame and cementing his place in French cinema history.

In 1960 Resnais completed Last Year at Marienbad in partnership with writer/filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet. L'année dernière à Marienbad (translated as Last Year in Marienbad in the UK and Last Year at Marienbad in North Alain Robbe-Grillet (French alɛ̃ ʁɔb gʁiˈje (August 18 1922 &ndash February 18 2008 was a French Writer The film concerns a man known only as X who meets a woman named A at an old-fashioned European resort and attempts to convince her that they met there once before as lovers. In this film Resnais took his exploration of subjective memory to shockingly experimental lengths, creating an unstable reality that shifts fluidly along with its characters' perceptions. As X attempts to conveys to A his memories of their previous meeting the very landscape around them morphs rapidly from shot to shot as the memories he describes flood into the present moment. Similar scenes play out in different ambiguous versions, and the viewer is unable to ascertain whether X is a villain who actually raped A or a hero/lover who helps her to escape from a dystopic prison-like resort. Many believe the film to be loosely based on the novel, The Invention of Morel. The Invention of Morel, sometimes translated as Morel's Invention, is a science fiction Novel by Adolfo Bioy Casares published in 1940

Resnais was a contemporary, but not fully a member, of the French New Wave, the group of critics-turned-filmmakers that included François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard . François Roland Truffaut ( February 6 1932 – October 21 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking Jean-Luc Godard (French ʒɑ̃lyk gɔˈdaʀ (born on December 3 1930 is a French and Swiss Filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague More precisely, Resnais belonged to the filmmaking and literary community of the Left Bank, which included Agnès Varda, Jacques Demy and other filmmakers and authors with a commitment to modernism and little debt to the American cinema. For other uses see Left Bank. La Rive Gauche (The Left Bank is the left bank of the Seine River in Paris, as one Agnès Varda (born 30 May 1928 is a Belgian Film director. Her movies photographs and art installations focus on documentary realism feminist issues and Jacques Demy ( June 5, 1931 – October 27, 1990) was one of the most approachable filmmakers to appear in the wake of the French New

He worked regularly during the 1960s and '70s. Although not especially prolific, he has nonetheless achieved great success. In the 1980s, he experienced a disappointment after the critical and box office failure of several films. With Smoking/No Smoking (1993), he once again achieved international critical and commercial success. Smoking/No Smoking is a 1993 French movie It was directed by Alain Resnais and written by Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, from the play

Now in his eighties, Resnais is still creating more filmic output, most recently with Coeurs (2006, known as Private Fears in Public Places in North America).

Personal life

Resnais was married to Florence Malraux (the only daughter of the late French statesman André Malraux). André Malraux (3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976 was a French Author, adventurer and Statesman, and a dominant figure in French politics and culture His current companion is French actress Sabine Azéma, whom he married in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Sabine Azéma (born 20 September 1949 in Paris) is a French actress Scarborough is a town on the North Sea coast of North Yorkshire, England. North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan or shire county located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and a ceremonial county in

Collaborators

Many of his films were produced by Anatole Dauman and Argos Films who also produced films for other Left Bank film makers such as Chris Marker. Anatole Dauman (1925 in Warsaw - April 8, 1998 in Paris) was a French film producer Chris Marker (born 29 July 1921 is a French Writer, Photographer, Film director, Multimedia artist and documentary maker He was also known for his collaborations with literary figures such as Alain Robbe-Grillet, Alan Ayckbourn and Marguerite Duras. Alain Robbe-Grillet (French alɛ̃ ʁɔb gʁiˈje (August 18 1922 &ndash February 18 2008 was a French Writer Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE (born 12 April 1939 is a popular and prolific English playwright Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras (maʀgəʁit dyˈʁas in French ( April 4, 1914 – March 3, 1996) was a French

Awards

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Persondata
NAME Resnais, Alain
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1922-6-3
PLACE OF BIRTH Vannes, Morbihan, Bretagne, France
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. Vannes (Gwened is a town and commune located in the Morbihan département, in Brittany, in the west of France. Morbihan (Mor-Bihan is a department in the northwest of France named after the Morbihan ( small sea in Breton) the enclosed sea that is the This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.
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