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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Example Sentences

“Araya” shared the International Federation of Film Critics award at Cannes in 1959 with Alain Resnais’s landmark New Wave film, “Hiroshima Mon Amour.”

From New York Times

Other references include the parallel realities in Paul Auster’s fiction and the enigmas of “Last Year at Marienbad,” an Alain Resnais film from the early 1960s in which characters explore palatial spaces and contemplate the past.

From New York Times

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

And in a recent Decider essay, the critic Glenn Kenny shrewdly examined “Oppenheimer” alongside Alain Resnais’ elliptical 1959 masterpiece, “Hiroshima Mon Amour,” itself a powerful commentary on the futility of trying to represent the unrepresentable.

From Los Angeles Times

The most memorable films about the period, from Alain Resnais’ 30-minute “Night and Fog” to Claude Lanzmann’s nine-hour-plus “Shoah,” share this reserve with such memoirs as Primo Levi’s “Survival in Auschwitz.”

From Los Angeles Times