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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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Francois Resnais, national secretary of SNPDEN-Unsa, France's top union of school principals, criticised the timing as "bad".

From Barron's Aug. 24, 2026

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

Hiroshima Mon Amour Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada star in this influential 1959 post-war romance directed by Alain Resnais; in French and Japanese with English subtitles; part of the “Unknown Fates” film series.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 10, 2019

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