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Alain Resnais

Director, Actor

 
Nuit et Broulliard (Night and Fog)Nuit et Broulliard (Night and Fog) (1955)
Dir. Alain Resnais
Haunting, influential doco on the Nazi concentration camps investigates the ways in which images of past events cause guilt for those in the present,…
Hiroshima Mon AmourHiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada
Romance between a French actress and a Japanese architect rekindles their traumatic wartime experiences. The twin threads of despair and sensual love…
Last Year at MarienbadLast Year at Marienbad (L'Annee Dernier a Marienbad) (1961)
Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi
All the rules of film–making are broken in this notorious question mark of a film in which a past event plagues the occupants of a grand…
Guerre Est Finie, LaGuerre Est Finie, La (1966)
Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Genevieve Bujold
(The War is Over). Deeply romantic film in which Spanish Civil War refugee Yves Montand tries in vain to keep alive the memory of his struggle.
Far from VietnamFar from Vietnam (1967)
Dir. Agnes Varda, Joris Ivens, William Klein
Feat. Anne Bellec, Karen Blanguernon, Bernard Fresson
A documentary essay film with seven segments each directed by seven French New Wave directors, who express their opposition to the Vietnam War and…
StaviskyStavisky (1974)
Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Francois Perier, Anny Duperey
Belmondo lends his shafty screen persona to the role of notorious financier, swindler, and raconteur Alexandre Stavisky, whose monetary exploits and…
ProvidenceProvidence (1977)
Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn
John Gielgud plays a dying writer struggling to complete his final novel. Unusual film juxtaposes his imagined thoughts with events from his…
Mon Oncle D'AmeriqueMon Oncle D'Amerique (My American Uncle) (1980) Recommended
Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Marie Dubois, Jean Daste
The dir. of LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD experiments with notions of human behaviour in this unusual drama, centred around the theories of a French…
Life Is A Bed Of RosesLife Is A Bed Of Roses (1983)
Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Ruggero Raimondi, Fanny Ardant, Geraldine Chaplin
Ambitious fantastical oddity from dir. Resnais was made as a tribute to era–defining French directors Melies, L'Herbier and Rohmer, weaving…
Love Unto DeathLove Unto Death (L'amour à Mort) (1984)
Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Sabine Azema, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi
Alain Resnais (HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR) pursues his themes of love and death with this symbolic tale of lovers Simon (Arditi) and Elizabeth (Azema)…
MeloMelo (1986)
Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Sabine Azema, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi
New Wave dir. Resnais explores unusually restrained, linear territory in this bittersweet melodrama centered around a love triangle between longtime…
I Want To Go HomeI Want To Go Home (1989)
Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Linda Lavin, Laura Benson
Satirical French comedy focused on a washed–up American comic artist who reluctantly visits France for an exhibition, only to run into his…
On Connait la ChansonOn Connait la Chanson (Same Old Song) (1997) Recommended
Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azema, Jean-Pierre Bacri
A winner of seven Cesar awards, this light–hearted homage to Dennis Potter applies his musical–cinematic ideas to the…
CoeursCoeurs (Private Fears in Public Places) (2006)
Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Sabine Azema, Laura Morante, Pierre Arditi
Romantic French drama with a vulnerable edge explores the modern dilemmas of loneliness and adoration through the lives of six alienated Parisians…
Wild GrassWild Grass (Les Herbes Folles) (2008) Recommended
Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Andre Dussollier, Sabine Azema, Emmanuelle Devos
A masterful light–footed comedy of the surreal from veteran French dir. Alain Resnais, centered on a missing wallet responsible for triggering…

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