Alain Resnais

Alain Pierre Marie Jean Georges Resnais (Known as "Alain Resnais")

Master Film Director, Left Bank Pioneer, Director of Night and Fog and Hiroshima mon amour

Born Jun 03, 1922

Vannes (Morbihan, Brittany), France

Passed Away Mar 01, 2014 Paris, France

Lifespan 91 years old

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"Cinema is an instrument for exploring the architecture of memory and the mystery of time."

Archival Overview

Visionary French filmmaker and cornerstone of the Left Bank cinema group whose Holocaust documentary Nuit et Brouillard (1956) and modern classics Hiroshima mon amour and Last Year at Marienbad revolutionized cinematic memory.

Biographical Record

Educated at the IDHEC film school in Paris, Resnais achieved international acclaim with his devastating 1956 documentary Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog), combining black-and-white liberation footage of Nazi concentration camps with Jean Cayrol's poetic narration.

In 1959, he directed his feature debut Hiroshima mon amour with screenplay by Marguerite Duras, breaking chronological narrative with fluid streams of personal memory and collective trauma. His 1961 Last Year at Marienbad (screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet) won the Golden Lion in Venice, influencing cinema worldwide for sixty years.

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Montparnasse Cemetery (Division 4)
Paris, France

                         GPS: 48.8417, 2.3278                    

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