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Alain Resnais's scriptwriter on this film was the author Jacques Sternberg. The film was unlucky in its release (its planned screening at Cannes was cancelled amid the political events of May 1968), and it was almost five years before Resnais was able to direct another film.
Alain Resnais (born June 3, 1922, Vannes, France—died March 1, 2014, Paris) was a French motion-picture director who was a leader of the Nouvelle Vague of unorthodox, influential film directors appearing in France in the late 1950s.
For Providence (1977), David Mercer gave him a script in which a sick writer concocts a bizarre imaginary narrative using his closest friends as his characters. Freed from any pretence of naturalism, Resnais juxtaposed surreal episodes with everyday life in My American Uncle (1980).
French film director Alain Resnais has had one of the longest careers as a film director, having started making films when he was 14 years old, and continuing to make them today. He is closely associated with the filmmaking movement the French New Wave, and remains as one of France’s great directors and a major influence on contemporary film.
Mar 1, 2014 · Alain Resnais (3 June 1922 – 1 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Night and Fog (1955), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.
May 11, 2018 · French film director Alain Resnais (born 1922) was one of the most noted innovators in the history of twentieth-century film. His many film credits include Night and Fog, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, and Marienbad.
Oct 10, 1976 · Resnais seems to prefer working with novelists, rather than screenwriters — people like Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe‐Grillet, Jean Cayrol and Jorge Semprum.
