About

Known credits:
71
Birthday:
1922-06-03
Place of birth:
Vannes, Morbihan, Bretagne, France
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Alain Resnais

Overview

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 modernism and an interest in left-wing politics. He also established a regular practice of working on his films in collaboration with writers previously unconnected with the cinema such as Jean Cayrol, Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jorge Semprún and Jacques Sternberg.

In later films, Resnais moved away from the overtly political topics of some previous works and developed his interests in an interaction between cinema and other cultural forms, including theatre, music, and comic books. This led to imaginative adaptations of plays by Alan Ayckbourn, Henri Bernstein and Jean Anouilh, as well as films featuring various kinds of popular song.

His films frequently explore the relationship between consciousness, memory, and the imagination, and he was noted for devising innovative formal structures for his narratives. Throughout his career, he won many awards from international film festivals and academies.

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Known for

Acting
2022 Alain Resnais, l'audacieux Actor Self (archive footage) 59
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2022 Bacri, comme un air de famille Actor Self (archive footage) 59
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2019 In the Ears of Alain Resnais Actor Self (archive footage) N/A
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2007 Propos d'Alain Resnais Actor Self (voice) N/A
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2005 Hiroshima: The Time of Return Actor (voice) N/A
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1978 May Days Actor Self 59
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1963 The Lovely Month of May Actor Self (uncredited) 60
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1962 Sign of the Lion Actor Un Consommateur (uncredited) 59
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1942 The Devil's Envoys Actor Extra (uncredited) 60
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Directing
2014 Life of Riley Directing Director 58
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2012 You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet Directing Director 59
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2009 Wild Grass Directing Director 59
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2006 Private Fears in Public Places Directing Director 59
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2004 Their First Films Directing Director N/A
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2003 Not on the Lips Directing Director 58
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1997 Same Old Song Directing Director 61
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1993 Smoking Directing Director 59
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1993 Smoking / No Smoking Directing Director 59
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1993 No Smoking Directing Director 59
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1993 Gershwin Directing Director N/A
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1991 Against Oblivion Directing Director 58
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1989 I Want to Go Home Directing Director 58
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1986 Mélo Directing Director 59
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1984 Love Unto Death Directing Director 59
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1983 Life Is a Bed of Roses Directing Director 58
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1980 My American Uncle Directing Director 61
Fair
1977 Providence Directing Director 59
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1974 Stavisky... Directing Director 59
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1973 The Year 01 Directing Co-Director 59
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1968 Cinétracts Directing Director 59
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1968 Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime Directing Director 59
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1967 Far from Vietnam Directing Director 59
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1966 The War Is Over Directing Director 59
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1963 Muriel, or the Time of Return Directing Director 60
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1961 Last Year at Marienbad Directing Director 66
Fair
1959 Hiroshima Mon Amour Directing Director 70
Good
1959 Night and Fog Directing Director 70
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1957 The Song of Styrene Directing Director 59
Average
1957 The Mystery of Workshop 15 Directing Director 59
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1956 All the World's Memory Directing Director 59
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1953 Statues Also Die Directing Director 59
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1951 Guernica Directing Director 58
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1951 Pictura Directing Director N/A
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1949 Paul Gauguin Directing Director 58
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1948 Van Gogh Directing Director 59
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1948 Paris Nineteen Hundred Directing Assistant Director 58
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1947 Christine Boomeester Directing Director N/A
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1947 Visite à Hans Hartung Directing Director 58
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1947 Visite à Christine Boumeester Directing Director N/A
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1947 Visite à Félix Labisse Directing Director N/A
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1947 Visite à César Domela Directing Director N/A
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1947 Visite à Oscar Dominguez Directing Director 58
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1947 Visite à Lucien Coutaud Directing Director N/A
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1947 Portrait d’Henri Goetz Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2012 You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet Writing Screenplay 59
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2009 Wild Grass Writing Writer 59
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2009 Wild Grass Writing Adaptation 59
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1986 Mélo Writing Writer 59
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1947 Visite à Oscar Dominguez Writing Writer 58
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Production
1948 Paris Nineteen Hundred Production Researcher 58
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1948 Paris Nineteen Hundred Production Assistant Production Coordinator 58
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Crew
1984 El misteri dels cines desapareguts Crew Thanks N/A
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1965 Tokyo Olympiad Crew Thanks 60
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1958 Broadway by Light Crew Technical Advisor 59
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Editing
1959 Night and Fog Editing Editor 70
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1957 The Song of Styrene Editing Editor 59
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1956 All the World's Memory Editing Editor 59
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1956 La Pointe Courte Editing Editor 60
Fair
1954 Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances Editing Editor N/A
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1953 Statues Also Die Editing Editor 59
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1948 Paris Nineteen Hundred Editing Editor 58
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