The films of
Alain Resnais
Nuit et brouillard (1955)
Alain Resnais 		  Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
Alain Resnais 		  L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961)
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Commissioned by the French Committee for the History of the Second World War, Nuit et brouillard is widely recognised as the film which provides the most potent depiction of the horrors of the Holocaust...  [More...]   This is an exceptional film, marking Alain Resnais’ debut as a film director, after a decade of producing eye-opening short documentaries. Indeed...  [More...]   There are few films that stand out as being unique and entirely unlike anything that has gone before, but Alain Resnais’s L’année derniere à Marienbad is one such film...  [More...]  
Muriel (1963)
Alain Resnais 		  La Guerre est finie (1966)
Alain Resnais 		  Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968)
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Widely regarded as one of Alain Resnais’ greatest films, Muriel is perhaps the most perfect distillation of the themes of time, place and memory which dominate most of the director’s works...  [More...]   The stylish ambiguity and other-worldliness, achieved through some stunning photography, in Resnais’ early films would appear inappropriate for a political thriller...  [More...]    [More...]  
Stavisky (1974)
Alain Resnais 		  Providence (1977)
Alain Resnais 		  Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
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Although not intended as a conventional historic drama, this film sheds some light on the enigmatic yet comparatively unknown character of Stavisky...  [More...]   A recurring feature of Alain Resnais’ cinema is the way in which memory distorts reality and creates an alternative view of the world which, in the mind of the central protagonist...  [More...]   What could easily have been a conventional drama about the pressures of modern living is magnificently transformed into a multi-layered film which is both compelling and entertaining...  [More...]  
La Vie est un roman (1983)
Alain Resnais 		  L'Amour à mort (1984)
Alain Resnais 		  Mélo (1986)
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The relationship between times past and present is a recurrent theme in Alain Resnais’ cinema. Whereas his earlier films adopt an abstract, often bewildering...  [More...]   Whilst not in the league of Resnais’ earlier cinematic achievements, L’Amour à mort offers a solemn and unusual meditation on the relationship between love and death...  [More...]   Mélo makes a striking contrast with Alain Resnais’ previous films in which, by and large, narrative is either lacking altogether or else achieved in an astonishingly original way...  [More...]  
I Want to Go Home (1989)
Alain Resnais 		  Smoking / No Smoking (1993)
Alain Resnais 		  On connaît la chanson (1997)
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Although pretty mundane when compared with Resnais’ earlier cinematographic achievements, this is nonetheless an entertaining satire, having the quality of characterisation and narrative structure we have come to...  [More...]    [More...]   On connaît la chanson marked Alain Resnais’ triumphal return to mainstream French cinema in the late 1990s. The film, hugely popular in France...  [More...]  

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