Complex and avant-garde French film director best known for Night and Fog and Last Year in Marienbad
Alain Resnais, who has died aged 91, was a director of elegance and distinction who, despite generally working from the screenplays of other writers, established an auteurist reputation. His films were singular, instantly recognisable by their style as well as through recurring themes and preoccupations. Primary concerns were war, sexual relationships and the more abstract notions of memory and time. His characters were invariably adult (children were excluded as having no detailed past) middle-class professionals. His style was complex, notably in the editing and often – though not always – dominated by tracking shots and multilayered sound.
He surrounded himself with actors, musicians and writers of enormous talent and the result was a somewhat elitist body of work with little concern for realism or the socially or intellectually deprived. Even overtly political works, Night and Fog,...
Alain Resnais, who has died aged 91, was a director of elegance and distinction who, despite generally working from the screenplays of other writers, established an auteurist reputation. His films were singular, instantly recognisable by their style as well as through recurring themes and preoccupations. Primary concerns were war, sexual relationships and the more abstract notions of memory and time. His characters were invariably adult (children were excluded as having no detailed past) middle-class professionals. His style was complex, notably in the editing and often – though not always – dominated by tracking shots and multilayered sound.
He surrounded himself with actors, musicians and writers of enormous talent and the result was a somewhat elitist body of work with little concern for realism or the socially or intellectually deprived. Even overtly political works, Night and Fog,...
- 3/3/2014
- by Brian Baxter
- The Guardian - Film News
Paris -- Jacques Audiard's "A Prophet" will be France's bid for an foreign Oscar nomination slot for the 2010 Academy Awards, French film organization the Cnc said Thursday.
The film, which won the Grand Prize at this year's Festival de Cannes, will represent Gaul in the pre-nomination race.
The prison drama, critically acclaimed across the globe after premiering in Cannes in May, was released in France on Aug. 26 and has already sold nearly 800,000 tickets in the territory.
Produced by Why Not Productions, "Prophet" stars first-time actor Tahar Rahim as an errant, illiterate youth who lands in prison and makes his way into the world of a Corsican gang.
The film was chosen by a selection committee appointed by Cultural Minister Frederic Mitterand, including Cesars Academy president Alain Terzian, Festival de Cannes Artistic Director Thierry Fremaux, president of the Cnc's "Avance sur Recettes" (Selective Aid) Commission Florence Malraux and directors Jean-Jacques Annaud,...
The film, which won the Grand Prize at this year's Festival de Cannes, will represent Gaul in the pre-nomination race.
The prison drama, critically acclaimed across the globe after premiering in Cannes in May, was released in France on Aug. 26 and has already sold nearly 800,000 tickets in the territory.
Produced by Why Not Productions, "Prophet" stars first-time actor Tahar Rahim as an errant, illiterate youth who lands in prison and makes his way into the world of a Corsican gang.
The film was chosen by a selection committee appointed by Cultural Minister Frederic Mitterand, including Cesars Academy president Alain Terzian, Festival de Cannes Artistic Director Thierry Fremaux, president of the Cnc's "Avance sur Recettes" (Selective Aid) Commission Florence Malraux and directors Jean-Jacques Annaud,...
- 9/17/2009
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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