Alain Resnais, Acclaimed French Filmmaker, Dead At 91

After confirming Alains death, Hollande would go on to say that the country lost one of Frances greatest filmmakers. Although Alains name was associated with the French New Wave movement in films, along with other directors, notably Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, he also embraced modernism and surrealism. The New York Times would also include that he actually belonged to a tradition of Left Bank intellectualism that drew on more established, high-culture sources. Along his 50-year plus illustrious career, Resnais directed many memorable films. Probably the first film that most of his fans associate to his success is Hiroshima Mon Amour made back in 1959. The film took on two sociological and political subjects: the United States nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and the German occupation of France. Last Year at Marienbad won the Golden Lion at the 1961 Venice Film Festival. It probably was best known for its hypnotic representations through the repetition of spoken lines and situations, a time scheme that folds back on itself, and ominous, black-and-white wide-screen images that evoke both surrealist paintings and the society dramas of silent film.

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