Alain Resnais (born June 3, 1922) is a famous French film director, perhaps best known for his masterpieces Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and Last Year at Marienbad (L'année dernière à Marienbad) (1961), written by the French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, but also recognised for his other moving and challenging work, such as the pre-eminent Holocaust documentary Night and Fog (1955).
Biography
He was born in Vannes, France. He married Florence Malraux , the only daughter of French statesman André Malraux and his first wife, Clara Goldschmidt. She often worked on Resnais's films.
Filmography
- Pas sur la bouche (2003)
- On connaît la chanson (1997)
- Smoking (1993)
- No Smoking (1993)
- Gershwin (1992)
- Contre l'oubli (1991)
- I Want to Go Home (1989)
- Mélo (1986)
- L'amour à mort (1984)
- La vie est un roman (1983)
- Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
- Providence (1977)
- Stavisky... (1974)
- L'an 01 (1973) (New York scenes)
- Cinétracts (1968)
- Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968)
- Loin du Vietnam (1967)
- La guerre est finie (1966)
- Muriel (1963)
- L'année dernière à Marienbad (1961)
- Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
- Le chant du Styrène (1958)
- Le mystère de l'atelier quinze (1957)
- Toute la mémoire du monde (1956)
- Night and Fog (1955)
- Les statues meurent aussi (1953)
- Pictura (1952)
- Gauguin (1950)
- Guernica (1950/I)
- Châteaux de France (1948)
- Les jardins de Paris (1948)
- Malfray (1948)
- Van Gogh (1948)
- L'alcool tue (1947) (as Alzin Rezarail)
- La bague (1947)
- Journée naturelle (1947)
- Le lait Nestlé (1947)
- Portrait d'Henri Goetz (1947)
- Van Gogh (1947)
- Visite à César Doméla (1947)
- Visite à Félix Labisse (1947)
- Visite à Hans Hartnung (1947)
- Visite à Lucien Coutaud (1947)
- Visite à Oscar Dominguez (1947)
- Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire (1946)
- Schéma d'une identification (1946)
- L'aventure de Guy (1936)
