Director: Alain Resnais (2009)
Marguerite was not to know that her handbag would be snatched as she was leaving a shop, nor could George have known what would happen when he bent down in a carpark to collect its abandoned contents.
With: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, Anne Consigny, André Dussollier, Edouard Baer, Sabine Azéma.
Director: Alain Resnais (2003)
Gilberte Valandry (Sabine Azéma), wife of a rich industrialist (Pierre Arditi) reigns over a salon of incredible luxury. Helped by her sister (Isabelle Nanty), a talkative spinster, she leads on and then rebukes would be lovers who try to seduce her. Gilberte adores her husband and is crazy about flirts who stay [...]
Director: Alain Resnais (1955)
Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard) contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps’ quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage. With [...]
Director: Alain Resnais (1959)
A cornerstone of French cinema, Alain Resnais’ first feature is one of the most influential films of all time. A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love [...]