Alain Resnais

Instruktør, Filmklipper, Skuespiller, Forfatter

3. juni 1922 — 1. marts 2014 (91 år)
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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Kendt for

  • Hiroshima, min elskede
    Hiroshima, min elskede1959
  • I fjor i Marienbad
    I fjor i Marienbad1961
  • Nat og tåge
    Nat og tåge1956
  • Min onkel fra Amerika
    Min onkel fra Amerika1980
  • Private Fears in Public Places
    Private Fears in Public Places2006
  • Muriel
    Muriel1963
  • Wild Grass
    Wild Grass2009
  • Same Old Song
    Same Old Song1997
  • Providence
    Providence1977
  • Jeg elsker dig - jeg elsker dig
    Jeg elsker dig - jeg elsker dig1968
  • Smoking/No Smoking
    Smoking/No Smoking1993
  • Stavisky
    Stavisky1974
  • Life of Riley
    Life of Riley2014
  • Krigen er endt
    Krigen er endt1966
  • You Ain´t Seen Nothin´ Yet
    You Ain´t Seen Nothin´ Yet2012
  • Mélo
    Mélo1986
  • Not on the Lips
    Not on the Lips2003
  • I Want to Go Home
    I Want to Go Home1989
  • All the Memory in the World
    All the Memory in the World1956
  • Livet er en roman
    Livet er en roman1983

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