Alain Resnais

Reżyseria, Wydawca, Aktor, Scenariusz

3 czerwca 1922 — 1 marca 2014 (91 years)
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

  • Hiroszima, moja miłość
    Hiroszima, moja miłość1959
  • Zeszłego roku w Marienbadzie
    Zeszłego roku w Marienbadzie1961
  • Noc i mgła
    Noc i mgła1956
  • Wujaszek z Ameryki
    Wujaszek z Ameryki1980
  • Prywatne lęki w miejscach publicznych
    Prywatne lęki w miejscach publicznych2006
  • Muriel
    Muriel1963
  • Szalone trawy
    Szalone trawy2009
  • Znamy tę piosenkę
    Znamy tę piosenkę1997
  • Opatrzność
    Opatrzność1977
  • Kocham cię, kocham cię
    Kocham cię, kocham cię1968
  • Palić/Nie palić
    Palić/Nie palić1993
  • Stavisky
    Stavisky1974
  • Życie Rileya
    Życie Rileya2014
  • Wojna się skończyła
    Wojna się skończyła1966
  • Jeszcze nic nie widzieliście
    Jeszcze nic nie widzieliście2012
  • Melodramat
    Melodramat1986
  • Tylko nie w usta
    Tylko nie w usta2003
  • Chcę wracać do domu
    Chcę wracać do domu1989
  • Cała pamięć świata
    Cała pamięć świata1956
  • Życie jest powieścią
    Życie jest powieścią1983

Filmografia