Alain Resnais

Biography

Alain Resnais was a French film director and screenwriter whose career spanned over six decades. He began as a film editor in the mid-1940s before directing influential short films like Night and Fog (1955), which explored themes of memory and history. His feature films, including Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and Last Year at Marienbad (1961), adopted unconventional narrative techniques to deal with troubled memories and imagined pasts.