Retrospective – Alain Resnais

The Documentaries of Alain Resnais on newly restored 35mm prints

Alain Resnais, earned a great reputation for his short documentaries in the 1940s and 1950s before emerging as a prominent director of the Nouvelle Vague, with such films as Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959) and L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961). Resnais' work is challenging and mysterious but it is also remarkably coherent, showing a keen appreciation of human issues whilst exposing a creative force of great talent and daring.

Employing enigmatic narrative structures, lush cinematography, and lyrical editing patterns, Resnais has always been challenging the boundaries and our assumptions of what cinema should be about, perhaps more successfully than any other director.