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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

Private Fears in Public Places review by Oozoid from

Stay to the end - it is worth it 31 March 2012
...nest?) view of life in a modern city. I will certainly be trying other films by Alain Resnais.... Read customer review

Alain Resnais - filmography

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet on DVD (2012)
Starring: Lambert Wilson, Mathieu Amalric, Michel Piccoli
Director: Alain Resnais
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Theatre, memory and the past combine as a group of actors reunite on the wishes of their former director. Informed by telephone that noted theatre director Antoine d'Anthac (Denis Denis Podalydès) has died, a group of actors are requested to attend his home to view a videotaped performance of the ..read more »

50% from 71 members

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 458 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.

57% from 3,498 members

On Connait La Chanson on DVD (1997)
Starring: Sabine Azema, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Sabine Azema
Director: Alain Resnais
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Five Parisians hop on to the romantic merry-go-round in Alain Resnais' first film for twenty years. Odile renews her acquaintance with ex-lover Nicolas, much to her husband Claude's displeasure. Both Odile and Nicolas are looking for an apartment with the same estate agents - Odile's search handled ..read more »

61% from 732 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 32 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.

67% from 32 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.

60% from 30 members

My American Uncle on DVD (1980)
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia
Director: Alain Resnais
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Alain Resnais's award winning French drama charts the lives of three professsionals in the form of a 'case history'. Gerard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia and Roger Pierrre play three middle-class workers who suffer a variety of stressful situations, all of which conspire to rob them of the happiness ..read more »

64% from 271 members

Stavisky on DVD (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 96 members

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 249 members

Last Year In Marienbad - Blu-ray (1961)
Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Sacha Pitoëff, Giorgio Albertazzi
Director: Alain Resnais
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Widely considered to be one of the masterpieces of the French New Wave, this existentialist fantasy tale is the result of a collaboration between director Alain Resnais and French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet. In a luxury hotel somewhere in Europe, an unnamed man (Giorgio Albertazzi) attempts to ..read more »

67% from 234 members

Last Year At Marienbad on DVD (1961)
Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Sacha Pitoëff, Giorgio Albertazzi
Director: Alain Resnais
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Widely considered to be one of the masterpieces of the French New Wave, this existentialist fantasy tale is the result of a collaboration between director Alain Resnais and French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet. In a luxury hotel somewhere in Europe, an unnamed man (Giorgio Albertazzi) attempts to ..read more »

65% from 2,107 members

Hiroshima Mon Amour on DVD (1959)
Starring: Stella Dassas, Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada
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 1,543 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 1,018 member
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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 11 members

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 24 members

Alain Resnais facts

5 most recent films

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet - 2.5 stars
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

5 highest-rated films

Night And Fog - 4.0 stars
Hiroshima Mon Amour - 3.5 stars
Muriel - 3.5 stars
Last Year In Marienbad - Blu-ray - 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 - Life Is A Bed Of Roses - 3.0 stars
The Alain Resnais Collection - Melo - 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
Gerard Depardieu - 4 times - show films
Lambert Wilson - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alain Resnais - 5 times - show films

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