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Resnais

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/ rɛnɛ /

noun

  1. Alain (alɛ̃). born 1922, French film director, whose films include Hiroshima mon amour (1959), L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961), La Vie est un roman (1983), and On Connaît la Chanson (1998)

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As Vanity Fair put it, Grandage wanted to avoid “prurience” while blocking those sequences, which he said were inspired by the “very sculptural” body language of the 1959 Alain Resnais film “Hiroshima Mon Amour.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 9, 2022

As replete with zappy flashbacks as an Alain Resnais production, “Top of the Heap” is stabilized by its fiercely alienated central performance.

From New York Times Feb. 17, 2022

Belmondo's appeal, a mixture of sensitivity, warmth and unselfconscious ease, created a new romanticism that landed him roles in the films of French New Wave directors including Francois Truffaut, Alain Resnais and Louis Malle.

From Reuters Sep. 9, 2021

He frequently expressed ambivalence for esoteric directors like Brooks, Alain Resnais and Michelangelo Antonioni.

From Seattle Times Sep. 6, 2021

In 1948, Alain Resnais made a documentary, “Van Gogh,” that won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject.

From The New Yorker Nov. 12, 2018

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