Alain Resnais

Alain Resnais is a Réalisateur, Scénariste, Monteur, assistant Réalisateur, producing, editor, Scénariste, Acteur and producer French born the June 3rd 1922 with Vannes in France.

Biography

Training

Alain Resnais is born in 1922 with Vannes, in France. As of the fourteen years age, it turns its first court-measurings of which an adaptation of Fantomas . Parallel to the Cinema, it is impassioned for the Photographie, the Cartoon, and the Littérature, it affectionate particularly works of Harry Dickson, Marcel Proust, and André Breton. In 1942, it holds a small role in the Visitors of the evening . He imagines one moment to become bookseller but passes finally the contest of the IDHEC where he is allowed in 1943 in the section Montage.
En 1946, in Germany, it takes part in the Theater with the Armies under the direction of Andre Voisin. The same year he is assistant-realizer and assembler on the documentary feature film Paris 1900 . Its career as realizer starts with Van Gogh , in 1948, a documentary short-measuring produced by Pierre Braunberger. It turns during ten years of the Documentaire S. the topics approached are very varied: the War of Spain seen by Picasso or the Factory Pechiney. In 1956, it obtains the Prix Jean-Vigo for Nuit and fog , become since, thanks to Henri Michel, which had taken the initiative of it and was the historical adviser, a film of reference on the camps of deportation.

Feature-length films

In 1959, Alain Resnais carries out its first feature film of fiction, written by Marguerite Duras: Hiroshima my love . The film has much repercussion; he is appreciated at the same time by the critic and the public. According to Louis Malle, " this film made make a jump in the history of the cinéma". It connects with last year with Marienbad , in 1961, on a scenario of Alain Robbe-Grillet. It starts to define its style, tinted Surréalisme, and of Psychanalyse. In his films, one also often finds an engagement Social and Politique. One can quote for example Muriel in 1963, which treats continuations of the Guerre of Algeria, the war is finished (of which the scripte is signed Jorge Semprún), in 1966, which tells the history of a militant gauchist, Stavisky in 1974, which evokes the accounting scandal of IIIe République. The topics approached even if they are varied always turn around the psychological mechanisms, of the question of the free-referee (even of sound during, conditioning in My uncle d' Amérique where it illustrates the searchs for Henri Laborit). In the Years 1990, Alain Resnais opens with new collaborations, in particular with the duet of scenario writer-actors Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui, then develops the ludic aspect of its cinema, exploring the Théâtre with the diptych Smoking/No smoking in 1993, where the actors Sabine Azéma and Pierre Arditi play each one five roles, the Musical comedy with One knows the song or the Opérette in 2003, with Pas on the mouth .

Main features of its work

The work of Resnais indicates a deep unity, blaming the codes of the cinematographic narration traditional, " too much subjected to the péripéties" , according to the scenario writer Andre Delvaux, to explore the combinative possible ones and the prompt fictional analogies to explore the idea of a random reality and non-linear equations, making intersect various characters in a voluntarily artificial and theatrical universe. This fusion of the theater and the cinema makes it possible to the realizer to produce " expériences" , with the scientific direction of the term (proceeded definite explicitly by the testimony of professor Laborit in My uncle d' Amérique ), thus revealing an inexpressible truth on the human beings, locked up like animals in a cage, and the way in which those " struggle in this cobweb which is the existence" according to the expression of the actor Andre Dussolier. With that, the minitieux work of assembly making is added be juxtaposed various places and times to probe the memory whose significant time, expensive in Proust, is seen subjected to a composition of a symphonic nature, even operatic (very palpable in films such as Hiroshima my love , I love you, I love you and Providence ). The song polyphonic, that it is grotesque, comic or then dramatic and desperate brings in all logic the scenario writer to a form iconoclast, ironic and renewed musical film, in particular in these late works as One knows the song and Pas on the mouth . Its most recent film: Hearts (2006), written by the man of theater Jean-Michel Ribes, wants to be a kind of synthesis of all its artistic concerns.

“I wish to approach by film the complexity of the thought, his internal mechanism. As soon as one goes down in the unconscious one, the emotion is born. And the cinema should be only one assembly of emotions”.

Methods

That it is in its documentary films or of fiction, Alain Resnais is famous for his work of documentation meticulous person. It requires its scenario writers whom they establish a biographical card complete of all the characters, to give them a certain depth. He is also famous for his fidelity in work: one regularly finds in his films the actors Sabine Azéma, André Dussolier, Pierre Arditi.

Private life

Alain Resnais often does not grant an interview to the newspapers. He married in 1969 Florence Malraux, the girl of André Malraux. She will become her assistant for six following films, until Mello , in 1986. But, since the end of the year 1980, it shares the life of Sabine Azéma.

Catalog of films

Realizer

Assembler

Scenario writer

Chief-operator

Actor

Producer

Assistant realizer

Assembler

Nominations and Rewards

Others

A cinema bears its name ( Cinéma Alain Resnais ) to Clermont-l' Herault.

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