Alain Resnais (redirected from Alain Renais)

Resnais, Alain 

Born June 3, 1922, in Vannes. French film director.

Resnais studied cinema at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques and also studied acting. He is a representative of the New Wave, a trend in the French cinema in the mid-1950’s. His first motion pictures included the short film Van Gogh (1948) and the documentaries Guernica (1949) and Night and Fog (1956). Resnais’s feature films include Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), Muriel (1963), La Guerre est finie (1966), and Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968). In 1967 he collaborated on the film Far From Vietnam.

REFERENCE

Iutkevich, S. “Novaia shkola frantsuzskogo korotkometrazhnogo fil’ma.” In the collection Frantsuzskoe kinoiskusstvo. Moscow, 1960.