Alain Resnais (born June 3, 1922 ) is a French film director whose early works are often grouped within the New Wave or Nouvelle Vague film movement. 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). June 3 is the 154th day of the year (155th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... In the old city centre Harbour to cathedral Vannes (Breton: Gwened) is a town and commune located in the Morbihan département, in Brittany, in the west of France. ... Morbihan is a département in the northwest of France named after the Morbihan (small sea in Breton), the enclosed sea that is the principal feature of the coastline. ... (Région flag) (Region logo) Location Administration Capital Rennes Regional President Jean-Yves Le Drian (PS) (since 2004) Departments Côtes-dArmor Ille-et-Vilaine Morbihan Finistère Arrondissements 15 Cantons 201 Communes 1,268 Statistics Land area1 27,208 km² Population (Ranked 7th)  - January 1, 2006 est. ... See also: 1935 in film 1936 1937 in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events January 6 - first Porky Pig animated cartoon September 28 - The Marx Brothers Harpo Marx marries actress Susan Fleming Top grossing films in North America Red River Valley Academy Awards Best Picture: The Great... The César Award is the national film award of France first given out in 1975. ... Winners of the César Award in French film for best director: 1976 : Bertrand Tavernier  : (Que la fête commence) 1977 : Joseph Losey  : () 1978 : Alain Resnais  : (Providence) 1979 : Christian de Chalonge  : (LArgent des autres) 1980 : Roman Polanski  : (Tess) 1981 : François Truffaut  : (Le Dernier métro) 1982 : Jean-Jacques... Providence may mean: Divine Providence Providence College in Rhode Island, USA Providence, television series Providence, a 1977 film Providence, a 1991 film starring Keanu Reeves Providence, 1970s-era Providence may also refer to: Providence, Rhode Island (in Providence County) Providence, Alabama Providence, Kentucky Providence, New York It is also the... Smoking/No Smoking is a 1993 French movie. ... The César Award for best picture winners: 1976 : Le vieux fusil directed by Robert Enrico 1977 : (Monsieur Klein) directed by Joseph Losey 1978 : Providence directed by Alain Resnais 1979 : Other Peoples Money (Largent des autres) directed by Christian de Chalonge 1980 : Tess (Tess) directed by Roman Polanski... Providence may mean: Divine Providence Providence College in Rhode Island, USA Providence, television series Providence, a 1977 film Providence, a 1991 film starring Keanu Reeves Providence, 1970s-era Providence may also refer to: Providence, Rhode Island (in Providence County) Providence, Alabama Providence, Kentucky Providence, New York It is also the... Smoking/No Smoking is a 1993 French movie. ... On connaît la chanson (Same Old Song) is a 1997 French movie. ... June 3 is the 154th day of the year (155th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... François Truffauts New Wave film Jules et Jim The New Wave (French: la Nouvelle Vague) was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced (in part) by Italian Neorealism. ... The New Wave (French: Nouvelle vague) of French cinema was a cinematic movement of the 1960s. ... Nacht und Nebel (Night and Fog ) was an incident and edict in Nazi Germany. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hiroshima Mon Amour, Alain Resnais acclaimed film, was released in the USA in 1960, and was called The Birth of a Nation of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) by critic Leonard Maltin, because of its importance to the innovations of the movement. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Still from Lannée dernière à Marienbad Lannée dernière à Marienbad (translated as Last Year in Marienbad in the UK and Last Year at Marienbad in North America) is a 1961 French movie directed by Alain Resnais, starring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff. ... Still from Lannée dernière à Marienbad Lannée dernière à Marienbad (translated as Last Year in Marienbad in the UK and Last Year at Marienbad in North America) is a 1961 French movie directed by Alain Resnais, starring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ...

Career

Resnais was born in Vannes, France. Highly regarded in his native country, Resnais began making films in the mid-1940s after completing his studies at L`Institut hautes études cinématographiques. 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. His seminal short Night and Fog (1955) was one of the first documentaries about the Jewish Holocaust. 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. 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. In the old city centre Harbour to cathedral Vannes (Breton: Gwened) is a town and commune located in the Morbihan département, in Brittany, in the west of France. ... LInstitut des hautes études cinématographiques (the Institute for the Advanced Cinematographic Studies) is a French film school, founded during World War II. Categories: | ... Guernica or Guernica y Lumo (Basque Gernika-Lumo, pronounced in IPA [gernika]) is a small city in the Spanish Basque Country that was the meeting place of the Biscayne assembly under an oak tree, the Gernikako Arbola, which was a symbol of traditional freedoms of the Basque people. ... A young Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso, formally Pablo Ruiz Picasso, (October 25, 1881 - April 8, 1973) was one of the recognized masters of 20th century art. ... Guernica is one of the most famous paintings by Pablo Picasso, depicting the consequences of the bombing of Guernica. ... Nacht und Nebel (Night and Fog ) was an incident and edict in Nazi Germany. ... ...

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. 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 huiliation 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. Film Alain Resnais acclaimed film Hiroshima Mon Amour was released in 1959, and was called The Birth of a Nation of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) by critic Leonard Maltin, because of its importance to the innovations of the movement. ... Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras, (April 4, 1914 – March 3, 1996) was a French writer and film director. ... As in film, a flashback in literature is a technique which takes the narrative back in time from the point the story has reached, to recount events that happened before and give the back-story. ...

In 1960 Resnais completed his other world classic Last Year at Marienbad in partnership with writer/filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet. The film concerns a man known only as X who meets a woman named Y 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 Y 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 Y 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." Still from Lannée dernière à Marienbad Lannée dernière à Marienbad (translated as Last Year in Marienbad in the UK and Last Year at Marienbad in North America) is a 1961 French movie directed by Alain Resnais, starring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff. ... Alain Robbe-Grillet Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-) is a French writer and filmmaker, born in Brest, Finistère, France into a family of engineers and scientists. ... The Invention of Morel (sometimes translated as Morels Invention) is a 1940 novel by Argentine fiction writer Adolfo Bioy Casares. ...

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. 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. François Roland Truffaut (French IPA: ) (February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking, and remains an icon of the French film industry. ... Jean-Luc Godard (photograph by David Horvitz) Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930 in Paris) is a French filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the Nouvelle Vague, or French New Wave. Born in Paris to Franco-Swiss parents, he was educated in Nyon, later studying at... For the musical group, see Left Banke. ... Agnès Varda (born May 30, 1928) is a French filmmaker and director based in Paris and one of the key figures in modern film. ... The director and screenwriter Jacques Demy (1931 - 1990) was one of the most approachable filmmakers of the French New Wave. ...

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 internatoinal critical and commercial success. Smoking/No Smoking is a 1993 French movie. ...

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). His current companion is French actress Sabine Azéma. André Malraux, French author, adventurer, and statesman André Malraux (November 3, 1901 - November 23, 1976) was a French author, adventurer and statesman preeminent in the world of French politics and culture during his lifetime. ... Sabine Azéma (born September 20, 1949) is a French actress. ...

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. He was also known for his collaborations with literary figures such as Alain Robbe-Grillet and Marguerite Duras. Anatole Dauman is a French film producer who has produced films by Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Bresson, Wim Wenders, Nagisa Oshima, Andrei Tarkovsky, Volker Schlöndorff and Alain Resnais. ... Chris Marker (born July 29, 1921) is a French writer, photographer, film director, multimedia artist and documentary maker. ... Alain Robbe-Grillet Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-) is a French writer and filmmaker, born in Brest, Finistère, France into a family of engineers and scientists. ... Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras, (April 4, 1914 – March 3, 1996) was a French writer and film director. ...

Awards

• Prix Jean Vigo in 1954 and 1956
• Silver Lion at Venice Film Festival 2006 for Coeurs (aka Private Fears in Public Places).

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Trivia

The previews for Resnais's films never show clips from those films. As in the French preview for Pas sur la bouche, the trailers usually consist of Resnais himself speaking.

Filmography

• L'aventure de Guy (1936)
• Schéma d'une identification (1946)
• Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire (1946)
• Visite à Oscar Dominguez (1947)
• Visite à Lucien Coutaud (1947)
• Visite à Hans Hartnung (1947)
• Visite à Félix Labisse (1947)
• Visite à César Doméla (1947)
• Van Gogh (1947)
• Portrait d'Henri Goetz (1947)
• Le lait Nestlé (1947)
• Journée naturelle (1947)
• La bague (1947)
• L'alcool tue (1947) (as Alzin Rezarail)
• Van Gogh (1948)
• Malfray (1948)
• Les jardins de Paris (1948)
• Châteaux de France (1948)
• Guernica (1950/I)
• Gauguin (1950)
• Pictura (1952)
• Les statues meurent aussi (1953)
• Night and Fog (1955)
• Toute la mémoire du monde (1956)
• Le mystère de l'atelier quinze (1957)
• Le chant du Styrène (1958)
• Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
• L'année dernière à Marienbad (1961)
• Muriel ou Le temps d'un retour (1963)
• La Guerre est finie (1966)
• Loin du Vietnam (1967)
• Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968)
• Cinétracts (1968)
• L'an 01 (1973) (New York scenes)
• Stavisky (1974)
• Providence (1977)
• Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
• La vie est un roman (1983)
• L'amour à mort (1984)
• Mélo (1986)
• I Want to Go Home (1989)
• Contre l'oubli (1991)
• Gershwin (1992)
• Smoking/No Smoking (1993)
• On connaît la chanson (1997)
• Pas sur la bouche (2003)
• Cœurs (2006)

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Further reading

• Wilson, Emma, Alain Resnais (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006).

External links

• Alain Resnais at the Internet Movie Database
• Euroscreenwriters Interview
• Alain Resnais Tribute
• Analysis of several Resnais films
• Frenchfilms.com Overview of Resnais's Career
• Alain Resnais Allmovie Biography