Alain Resnais

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Alain Resnais with Juliette Binoche at the 23rd César Awards 1998

Alain Resnais (born June 3, 1922 in Vannes , † March 1, 2014 in Paris ) was a French film director .

Life

Resnais - son of a pharmacist - attended the Collège St.-François-Xavier in Vannes. He had his first camera at the age of thirteen, experimented with cine film as a teenager and had a crush on the theater. When he was exempted from military service because of his poor health, he went to Paris in 1939 to study education. From 1940 to 1942 he took acting lessons from René Simon and also trained as a film editor at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). He later joined the classic theater group Les Arlequins and made guest appearances in the province. After the Second World War he made a number of short films about famous artists such as Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin .

After working as an editor for other directors and numerous documentaries , he made his first feature film with Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada in 1959 : Hiroshima, mon amour , which addresses the destruction of Hiroshima by a US atomic bomb as well as the German occupation of France . The highly literary script, written by the French writer Marguerite Duras , received an Oscar nomination. Hiroshima, mon amour took part in the competition at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1959 . The work is now one of the classics of the Nouvelle Vague , as is the follow-up project Last Year in Marienbad from 1961, which is based on a script by the writer and director Alain Robbe-Grillet . In 1963 he devoted himself to the “aftershocks of the Algerian war” in Muriel or Die Zeit der Wiederkehr .

Resnais received the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival in 1995 for his services to the art of film and the Silver Bear of the Berlinale in 1998 for his life's work. In 2007 Resnais received the European FIPRESCI Prize as part of the European Film Prize for Hearts . Between 1936 and 2006 he made a total of 47 films. In 2009 he received for Wild Grass an invitation to the competition of the 62nd International Film Festival of Cannes , where he in 1980 with My American Uncle was before last represented. Resnais received another invitation to the Cannes competition in 2012 for the feature film Vous n'avez encore rien vu , which is to be loosely based on the play Eurydice by Jean Anouilh . The story is about a group of actors (portrayed by Lambert Wilson , Sabine Azéma and Anne Consigny , among others ) who come to a playwright's house to open his will.

Alain Resnais married Florence Malraux in 1969, the daughter of the French writer André Malraux . A daughter emerged from the relationship. From 1998 Resnais was married to the actress Sabine Azéma, whom he had entrusted with leading roles in many of his films from the 1980s.

Filmography (selection)

Short films

Feature films

literature

  • Frieda Grafe: Alain Resnais' practical films . First published in: Filmkritik from June 1966. Republished in: Frieda Grafe: Schriften, 3rd volume. Brinkmann & Bose Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-922660-82-7 , pp. 55-73.
  • James Monaco : Alain Resnais: The role of imagination. Secker & Warburg, London 1978, ISBN 0-436-28455-3 .
  • Christoph Müller: Je t'aime je t'aime. In: Filmstellen VSETH & VSU (ed.): Science Fiction / Andrzej Wajda. Documentation. Association of Students at the University of VSU, Zurich 1990, without ISBN, pp. 107–114 (with bio-filmography).
  • Wolfgang Jacobsen and others: Alain Resnais (Film 38 series). Hanser, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-446-14861-2 .
  • Peter W. Jansen : Where endless corridors follow corridors: Alain Resnais. In: Jörg-Dieter Kogel: European film art. Portraits of directors. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-596-24490-0 , pp. 119–129.
  • François Thomas: I want to go home (interviews with Laura Benson (actress), Catherine Leterrier (costumes), Charlie van Dumme (camera) and Jean-Claude Laureux (sound)). In: CICIM Center d'Information Cinématographique Munich (ed.): Marcel Ophuls / "I want to go home" / "La Marseillaise". (Revue CICIM No. 29). Institut français , Munich 1990, ISSN  0938-233X , pp. 104-118.
  • François Thomas (ed.): The studio of Alain Resnais (Revue CICIM No. 35/36). Ed .: CICIM Center d'Information Cinématographique Munich & Filmtage Tübingen, translated by Karola Bartsch. Institut français , Munich 1992. With bibliography, ISBN 3-920727-06-1 (German; not listed under Resnais in the DNB !).
  • Scarlett Winter: Robbe-Grillet, Resnais and the new look. Winter, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8253-5271-4 .
  • Emma Wilson: Alain Resnais. Manchester University Press, Manchester 2009, ISBN 978-0-7190-6407-4 .
  • Sophie Rudolph: The films of Alain Resnais: Reflections on the cinema as impure art. Edition Text + Criticism, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86916-137-2 .
  • Mirjam Schmid: Representability of the Shoah in novels and films (Kulturgeschichtliche Reihe, 12). Sonnenberg, Annweiler 2012, ISBN 978-3-933264-70-1 .
  • Hunter Vaughan: Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking. Columbia University Press, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-231-16132-9 .
  • Bastian Reinert: Translating Memory: Acts of Testimony in Resnais, Cayrol, and Celan. In: Peter Arnds (Ed.): Translating Holocaust Literature. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8471-0501-5 , pp. 139–152.

Web links

Commons : Alain Resnais  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Alain Resnais in: Süddeutsche
  2. ^ Marie-Noëlle Tranchant: Alain Resnais, prodige du cinema français, est mort. (Obituary) lefigaro.fr, March 2, 2014 (accessed March 3, 2014)
  3. ↑ a b Alain Resnais . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 19/2002 from April 29, 2002, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 15/2010 (accessed via Munzinger Online )
  4. ↑ Dave Kehr: Alain Resnais, Acclaimed French Filmmaker, Is Dead at 91. (obituary) nytimes.com, March 2, 2014 (accessed March 3, 2014)
  5. ↑ Patrick Straumann: Atomic certainties, mental labyrinths. (Obituary) nzz.ch, March 3, 2014 (accessed March 3, 2014)
  6. ↑ Description ( memento of April 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at timeout.com (accessed on April 26, 2012)
  7. ↑ Alain Resnais . In: World who's who: Europa biographical reference . Routledge, London 2002
  8. ↑ Toute la mémoire du monde on youtube.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0RVSZ_yDjs
  9. ↑ Focus: Resnais and André Schwarz-Bart
personal data
SURNAME Resnais, Alain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Vannes , France
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 2014
Place of death Paris