Alain Resnais

Alain Resnais was born in Vannes on 3 June 1922, the son of a pharmacist. Asthmatic, he was educated at home, and made his first amateur films very young. He first studied acting in Paris, then in 1943 entered the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, where he learned editing. After the war, he spent about ten years making documentary short films, devoted notably to art, and then worked with writers rather than writing his own screenplays. He died on 1 March 2014, aged ninety-one.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaHiroshima mon amourAlain Resnais · 1959Cinema
• CinemaLast Year at MarienbadL'Année dernière à MarienbadAlain Resnais · 1961Cinema