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Alain Resnais - what members say

Night And Fog review by from Northampton

Essential viewing 11 July 2005
...n behaviour can sink. Harrowing but essential viewing. In half an hour director Alain Resnais brings us face to face with the appalling fate meted out by the Nazis to milli... Read customer review

Last Year At Marienbad review by A customer from Norwich

Beautiful & Surreal Masterpiece 29 March 2011
...ways and naturalistic acting. In fact, some may say (and indeed have said) that Alain Resnais goes out of his way to confound his audience. I don't think this was his in... Read customer review

Muriel review by A customer from

Astonishing tale of memories and guilt 9 September 2011
...Muriel is an early sixties work by French director Alain Resnais. The plot centres around a restless woman, Helene, who invites an ex-lover from many years earlier to stay a... Read customer review

Alain Resnais - filmography

Wild Grass on DVD (2009)
Starring: André Dussollier, Andre Dussollier, Sabine Azéma
Director: Alain Resnais
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A wallet lost and found opens the door to romantic adventure for Georges and Marguerite. After examining the ID papers of its owner, it is not a simple matter for Georges to turn the red wallet he found in to the police. Nor is it that Marguerite can recuperate her wallet without being piqued with ..read more »

49% from 380 members

Private Fears in Public Places on DVD (2006)
Starring: Sabine Azema, Françoise Gillard, Anne Kessler
Director: Alain Resnais
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In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.

56% from 3,389 members

On Connait La Chanson on DVD (1997)
Starring: Sabine Azema, Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azema
Director: Alain Resnais
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A romantic comedy with a musical theme paying tribute to Dennis Potter. Two sisters live in Paris. Camille works part-time as a tour guide and meets up with a radio writer who also works for the same estate agent that is processing a house sale for Camille's sister. French dialogue with subtitles.

61% from 694 members

The Alain Resnais Collection - Melo on DVD (1986)
Starring: Sabine Azema, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi
Director: Alain Resnais, Alain Resnais
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A concert violinist meets and falls in love with the pretty young wife of an old friend in 1920s Paris.

60% from 24 members

The Alain Resnais Collection - Love Unto... on DVD (1984)
Starring: Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azema
Director: Alain Resnais, Alain Resnais
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Love Unto Death (1984) tells the story of Elisabeth (Sabine Azema) and Simon (Pierre Arditi) who, only weeks into a passionate relationship, must face the possibility that Simon may be on the brink of death.

65% from 24 members

The Alain Resnais Collection - Life Is A... on DVD (1983)
Starring: Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin
Director: Alain Resnais, Alain Resnais
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Life Is a Bed of Roses weaves together three stories set in a fantastical castle in the Ardennes forest.

61% from 25 members

My American Uncle on DVD (1980)
Starring: Nicole Garcia, Gerard Depardieu
Director: Alain Resnais
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Alain Resnais's MON ONCLE D'AMERIQUE may be the best all-around display of the director's unique narrative and photographic techniques. The film begins with still photographs appearing on the screen as a narrator gives a quick biography of each of the three characters in the movie: Jean, Janine, ..read more »

64% from 246 members

Stavisky (1974)
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmond, François Périer, Anny Duperey
Director: Alain Resnais
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Irrestisible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends...

62% from 94 members
Not currently released

Muriel on DVD (1963)
Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Nita Klein
Director: Alain Resnais
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If cinema has its equivalents to the master modernists of music, painting, or literature, then one of the tradition's foremost practitioners is undoubtedly Alain Resnais — and Muriel, ou le Temps d'un retour (Muriel, or: The Time of a Return) represents one of his earliest, and greatest, triumphs. ..read more »

67% from 212 members

Last Year In Marienbad - Blu-ray (1961)
Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff
Director: Alain Resnais
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In Alain Resnais's masterwork, L'ANNEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD, each fantasy laden, heavily dramatised, aesthetically perfected scene is dictated by the memories of a man (Giorgio Albertazzi), who is one of many elegant, aristocratic guests vacationing at the enchanting resort, Marienbad. Because the ..read more »

67% from 179 members

Last Year At Marienbad on DVD (1961)
Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff
Director: Alain Resnais
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Considered by many to be Renais' magnum opus, L'Année Dernière à Marienbad, is a work of fantasy and experiment in line with the French New Wave films of the 50's and 60's. Renais and co-writer, Alain Robbe-Grillet seem less concerned with the conventional use of character and more interested in ..read more »

65% from 1,966 member

Hiroshima Mon Amour on DVD (1959)
Starring: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas
Director: Alain Resnais
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Alain Resnais's multi-award-winning Hiroshima, Mon Amour is neither an easy film to watch nor to synopsize, but it remains one of the high-water marks of the French new wave movement. Resnais and scenarist Marguerite Duras weave a complex story concerning a French actress's (Emmanuelle Riva) ..read more »

70% from 1,421 member

Night And Fog (1955)
Starring: Jean Cayrol, Michel Bouquet
Director: Alain Resnais
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Night and Fog represents the peak of director Alain Resnais' activities as a short-subject filmmaker. Framed as a documentary, the film is an unsettling view of life inside the Nazi concentration camps of World War II. As he would in his later features (Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad ..read more »

74% from 977 members
Not currently released

The Alain Resnais Collection - I Want to... on DVD
Starring: Adolph Green, Gerard Depardieu, Linda Lavin
Director: Alain Resnais, Alain Resnais
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In I Want to Go Home, American cartoonist Joey Wellman (Adolph Green) visits his estranged daughter Elsie (Laura Benson) in Paris - with disastrous results.

52% from 17 members

The Alain Resnais Collection (4 discs) on DVD
Starring: Adolph Green, Laura Benson, Linda Lavin
Director: Alain Resnais, Alain Resnais
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Four classics from one of the masters of France's new wave. I WANT TO GO HOME (1989) A cantankerous American cartoonist visits his daughter in Paris with disastrous results. MELO (1986) In Paris in the 20's, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with a stylish young flapper. LOVE UNTO DEATH (..read more »

53% from 6 members

Alain Resnais facts

5 most recent films

Wild Grass - 2.5 stars
Private Fears in Public Places - 3.0 stars
On Connait La Chanson - 3.0 stars
The Alain Resnais Collection - Melo - 3.0 stars
The Alain Resnais Collection - Love Unto Death - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Night And Fog - 3.5 stars
Hiroshima Mon Amour - 3.5 stars
Last Year In Marienbad - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Muriel - 3.5 stars
Last Year At Marienbad - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Alain Resnais Collection - I Want to Go Home - 2.5 stars
The Alain Resnais Collection - 2.5 stars
The Alain Resnais Collection - Melo - 3.0 stars
The Alain Resnais Collection - Life Is A Bed Of Roses - 3.0 stars
The Alain Resnais Collection - Love Unto Death - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Sabine Azema - 7 times - show films
Pierre Arditi - 6 times - show films
Andre Dussollier - 5 times - show films
Fanny Ardant - 3 times - show films
Delphine Seyrig - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alain Resnais - 5 times - show films