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Alain Resnais

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Alain Resnais (1922–2014) was a French film director known for films exploring memory, time and identity; prominent figure associated with mid-20th-century art-house and Nouvelle Vague currents.

Born 1922, died 2014. Last Year at Marienbad (L'anno scorso a Marienbad) won the Golden Lion in Venice (1961). He directed Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and the documentary Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard/Notte e nebbia). He collaborated with writer Alain Robbe-Grillet on Marienbad.

Reviews emphasize Resnais's preoccupation with memory, time and identity, praising his elliptical editing and dreamlike style. Hiroshima mon amour is described as intensely powerful; L'anno scorso a Marienbad is noted for its oneiric, anti-narrative editing. Opinions vary, with at least one strongly negative take calling the work pretentious.

For:Fans of art-house and experimental cinema, film students, Nouvelle Vague enthusiasts

 Hiroshima mon amour. A 1959 film directed by Alan Resnais is a film of rare intensity.

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 Masterpiece of filmic oneirism, an editing so meticulous and at the same time idiosyncratic as to seem the prototype of the anti-film;

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 PRETENTIOUS AND PRESUMPTUOUS LIKE ALMOST ALL FRENCH FILMS, ESPECIALLY THOSE BY INTELLECTUAL CRITICS WHO, BORED WITH WRITING, TOOK UP FILMMAKING.

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