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Resnais

British  
/ 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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It feels like what you might get if the early-’60s Antonioni or Resnais had directed a season of “The White Lotus.”

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2024

‘Alain Resnais: Five Short Films’ A selection of newly restored early shorts by the influential French filmmaker screens for one night only.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 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 an attack on Resnais and others that appeared in The Atlantic, in 1964, Pauline Kael—Gilliatt’s future fellow-film critic at The New Yorker—presented Gilliatt’s statement as an object for ridicule.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 3, 2017