Alain Resnais

Regista, Montatore, Attore, Sceneggiatore

3 giugno 1922 — 1 marzo 2014 (91 anni)
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.

Famoso per

  • Hiroshima mon amour
    Hiroshima mon amour1959
  • L'anno scorso a Marienbad
    L'anno scorso a Marienbad1961
  • Notte e nebbia
    Notte e nebbia1956
  • Mio zio d'America
    Mio zio d'America1980
  • Cuori
    Cuori2006
  • Muriel, il tempo di un ritorno
    Muriel, il tempo di un ritorno1963
  • Gli amori folli
    Gli amori folli2009
  • Parole, parole, parole
    Parole, parole, parole1997
  • Providence
    Providence1977
  • Je t'aime, je t'aime - Anatomia di un suicidio
    Je t'aime, je t'aime - Anatomia di un suicidio1968
  • Smoking / No Smoking
    Smoking / No Smoking1993
  • Stavisky, il grande truffatore
    Stavisky, il grande truffatore1974
  • Life of Riley
    Life of Riley2014
  • La guerra è finita
    La guerra è finita1966
  • Vous n'avez encore rien vu
    Vous n'avez encore rien vu2012
  • Mélo
    Mélo1986
  • Mai sulla bocca
    Mai sulla bocca2003
  • Voglio tornare a casa!
    Voglio tornare a casa!1989
  • Tutta la memoria del mondo
    Tutta la memoria del mondo1956
  • La vita è un romanzo
    La vita è un romanzo1983

Filmografia