Person Details

Birthday: 1922-06-03 04:34:09

Death: 2014-03-01 04:34:09

Aliases: 알랭 레네 , Ален Рене , 亞倫·雷奈 , アラン・レネ

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Vannes, Morbihan, Bretagne, France

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Movie Involvements: 71

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alain Resnais, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Last Year at Marienbad
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Last Year at Marienbad

(1961) Director
Hiroshima Mon Amour
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8

Hiroshima Mon Amour

(1959) Director
My American Uncle
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7

My American Uncle

(1980) Director
Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
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7

Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime

(1968) Director
La Pointe Courte
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7

La Pointe Courte

(1956) Editor
Night and Fog
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8

Night and Fog

(1956) Editor
Muriel, or the Time of Return
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7
Stavisky...
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6

Stavisky...

(1974) Director

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2022 Self (archive footage)
2019 Self (archive footage)
2007 Self (voice)
2005 (voice)
1978 Self
1963 Self (uncredited)
1962 Un Consommateur (uncredited)
1956 audio interview with director Alain Resnais
Self
1942 Extra (uncredited)
Year Character Movie/Tv

Editing

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2022 Director
2014 Director
2012 Director
2009 Director
2006 Director
2004 Director
2003 Director
1997 Director
1993 Director
Director
Director
Director
1991 Director
1989 Director
1986 Director
1984 Director
1983 Director
1980 Director
1977 Director
1974 Director
1973 Co-Director
1968 Director
Director
1967 Director
1966 Director
1963 Director
1961 Director
1959 Director
1957 Director
1956 Director
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Director
1953 Director
1951 Director
Director
1949 Director
1948 Director
Assistant Director
1947 Director
Director
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Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Crew

Year Role Movie/Tv
1984 Thanks
1965 Thanks
1958 Technical Advisor
Year Role Movie/Tv

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