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 mid1940s 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 leftwing 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 RobbeGrillet 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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