Alain Resnais

Reviews

Last Year at Marienbad

Resnais speaks of how this film is like a Rorschach test; what it means depends on who watches it. [18 June 2009]

Last Year at Marienbad

This is the cinematic equivalent of whale bone-enforced corset, silk from the colonies, and the kind of workmanship only extreme class disparity can provide. [25 April 2008]

Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard) (1955)

It is darkly ambivalent about the veracity of our memories (both individually and collectively). [11 August 2003]

Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

In Hiroshima Mon Amour, Resnais and his screenwriter, French novelist Marguerite Duras, show their debts to the Modernists. [21 July 2003]