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Alain Resnais

Alain Resnais

French film director (1922-2014)
June 3, 1922 (March 1, 2014)
Fr. 2013. Comedy by Alain Resnais with Sabine Azéma, Hippolyte Girardot, Caroline Sihol. Three women in the English countryside put their marriages in jeopardy by allowing themselves to be seduced by a common friend, condemned by illness.
Runtime: 108 min.
Fr. 2012. Drama by Alain Resnais with Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Anne Consigny. Called upon to judge the quality of a new version of a deceased playwright's play that was captured on video, the original performers come to re-enact their characters.
Runtime: 115 min.

Wild Grass

V.O.: Les Herbes folles
Fr. 2009. Comedy by Alain Resnais with André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma, Anne Consigny. After handing over the stolen wallet of an unmarried dentist to the police, a married pensioner with a tendency to lie takes offense that she doesn't want to meet him.
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 2006. Dramatic comedy by Alain Resnais with André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi. In snowy Paris, the intertwined destinies of six men and women seeking to overcome their loneliness or to find their soul mate.
Runtime: 126 min.
Fr. 2003. Musical by Alain Resnais with Sabine Azéma, Lambert Wilson, Jalil Lespert. In the 1920's, a Parisian industrialist thinks of partnering with an American businessman, not knowing that he is the former husband of his wife.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 1997. Mores comedy by Alain Resnais with Sabine Azéma, Agnès Jaoui, André Dussollier. Two sisters are at the centre of various romantic and professional crossroads involving relatives, friends, and lovers.
Runtime: 122 min.
Fr. 1993. Dramatic comedy by Alain Resnais with Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi. The tribulations of an alcoholic school principal and his wife who is thinking of leaving him.
Runtime: 145 min.
Fr. 1993. Dramatic comedy by Alain Resnais with Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi. The tribulations of an alcoholic school principal and his wife who want to change his life.
Runtime: 140 min.
Fr. 1989. Comedy by Alain Resnais with Adolph Green, Laura Benson, Gérard Depardieu. An American cartoonist who has never traveled goes to Paris to see his daughter, of whom he has no news.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1986. Sentimental drama by Alain Resnais with Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier, Pierre Arditi. The wife of a violinist becomes the mistress of her husband's friend and thinks of killing him.
Runtime: 112 min.
Fr. 1984. Drama by Alain Resnais with Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, André Dussollier. A young woman is shocked when her seemingly dead spouse quickly comes back to life.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 1982. Satire by Alain Resnais with Raimondo Ruggeri, Vittorio Gassman, Sabine Azéma. A castle in the Ardennes serves as a setting for research about happiness in different eras.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1980. Psychological drama by Alain Resnais with Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre.
Runtime: 126 min.
Fr. 1976. Psychological drama by Alain Resnais with Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud. In the course of a sleepless night, a novelist stalked by death imagines the plot for a new story.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 1974. Social drama by Alain Resnais with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Claude Rich. Portrayal of a famous swindler’s life in the 1930s.
Runtime: 117 min.
Fr. 1968. Science-fiction by Alain Resnais with Claude Rich, Olga Georges-Picot, Anouk Ferjac. A suicide survivor agrees to experiment with a time-travel machine.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 1967. Essay film by Alain Resnais, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnès Varda, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard. Collection of documentary or experimental vignettes aimed at protesting the war in Vietnam.
Runtime: 115 min.

The War Is Over

V.O.: La Guerre est finie
Fr. 1966. Psychological drama by Alain Resnais with Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold. A Spanish revolutionary agent living in France is disillusioned with the struggle he is leading.
Runtime: 121 min.

Muriel or The Time of Return

V.O.: Muriel ou le temps d'un retour
Fr. 1963. Psychological drama by Alain Resnais with Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kerien, Jean-Baptiste Thierrée. A woman feels her love for a former lover rekindled after a twenty-year separation.
Runtime: 110 min.

Last Year at Marienbad

V.O.: L'Année dernière à Marienbad
Fr. 1960. Poetic drama by Alain Resnais with Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff. In a sumptuous hotel, a man tries to convince a woman that they have already met.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 1959. Psychological drama by Alain Resnais with Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Bernard Fresson. Reunited by a love affair, a French person and a Japanese person evoke a painful past.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1956. Drama by Agnès Varda with Silvia Monfort, Philippe Noiret. On vacation in the hamlet of Pointe Courte, two spouses rethink their love.
Runtime: 86 min.

The Devil's Envoys

V.O.: Les Visiteurs du soir
Fr. 1942. Poetic drama by Marcel Carné with Arletty, Alain Cuny, Jules Berry. A minstrel, a servant of the devil, falls in love with the daughter of a baron.
Runtime: 120 min.

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