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Alain Resnais

French film director (1922-2014)

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Alain Resnais was a French film director who lived from 1922 to 2014 and became known for his innovative and experimental approach to cinema. His work is considered important in film history for helping to shape modern filmmaking through his distinctive storytelling techniques and visual style.

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Instance of: human
Given name: Alain
Gender: male
Citizenship: France
Place of birth: Vannes
Place of death: Neuilly-sur-Seine
Spouse: Sabine Azéma
Occupation: film producer
Languages spoken: French
Religion: atheism
Movement: French New Wave
Image: Identite-AlainResnais-1959-Sacem.png

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date of birth: 1922-06-03
place of burial: Montparnasse Cemetery
described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
date of death: 2014-03-01
Commons category: Alain Resnais
nominated for: Carrosse d'or
name in native language: Alain Resnais
has works in the collection: Museum of Modern Art
related category: Category:Films directed by Alain Resnais
start of work period: 1946-00-00
end of work period: 2014-00-00
birth name: Alain Pierre Marie Jean Georges Resnais
topic has template: Template:Alain Resnais

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Encyclopedic overview

Alain Resnais ( French: [alɛ̃ ʁɛnɛ]; 3 June 1922 – 1 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. His films frequently explore the relationship between consciousness, memory, and the imagination, and he was noted for devising innovative formal structures for his narratives.

After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, Resnais went on to direct short films including Night and Fog (1956), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps. Resnais then began making feature films in the late 1950s and consolidated his early reputation with Hiroshima mon amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), Muriel (1963) and Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968) all of which adopted unconventional narrative techniques to deal with themes of troubled memory and the imagined past.

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