Himself (archive)
A genius inventor of forms, Alain Resnais is one of the fathers of cinematic modernity. This portrait, rich in archives, looks back on the career of a discreet non-conformist, in perpetual search of renewal to fight against anxiety.
Voix d'Alain Resnais
Director
Um grupo de teatro amador está ensaiando uma nova peça, quando uma notícia triste abala a todos: George, amigo próximo da trupe, está doente. De acordo com os médicos, ele tem no máximo seis meses de vida. Enquanto as mulheres do grupo começam a relembrar a antiga paixão pelo mulherengo George, os homens têm uma ideia inusitada: e se o amigo doente fosse chamado para interpretar um dos personagens da peça?
Screenplay
Antoine d’Anthac, célebre dramaturgo, convoca, depois da sua morte, todos os seus amigos que interpretaram a peça Euridíce. Estes actores têm como missão ver uma encenação desta obra por um novo grupo, a Compagnie de la Colombe. O amor, a vida, a morte, o amor depois da morte ainda têm lugar num palco? São eles que têm de decidir. Mas as surpresas ainda agora começaram…
Director
Antoine d’Anthac, célebre dramaturgo, convoca, depois da sua morte, todos os seus amigos que interpretaram a peça Euridíce. Estes actores têm como missão ver uma encenação desta obra por um novo grupo, a Compagnie de la Colombe. O amor, a vida, a morte, o amor depois da morte ainda têm lugar num palco? São eles que têm de decidir. Mas as surpresas ainda agora começaram…
Writer
Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy head of family. As he looks through the wallet and examines the photos of Marguerite, he finds he's fascinated with her and her life, and soon his curiosity about her becomes an obsession.
Adaptation
Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy head of family. As he looks through the wallet and examines the photos of Marguerite, he finds he's fascinated with her and her life, and soon his curiosity about her becomes an obsession.
Director
Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy head of family. As he looks through the wallet and examines the photos of Marguerite, he finds he's fascinated with her and her life, and soon his curiosity about her becomes an obsession.
Audio interview with Alain Resnais
Director
In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.
(voice)
Luc Lagier puts Alain Resnais' film back in its historical context and in the filmmaker's biography. He tells the story, then the development of what was originally intended to be a short documentary film and which turned into an unusual allegory. Composed of fascinating archives, including notably the correspondence between Duras and Resnais, this analysis of 'Hiroshima mon amour' manages to put the film in perspective while detaching itself from it. A rare and captivating work.
Director
Este, para quem só há felicidade conjugal quando se é o primeiro marido da mulher, é escrupulosamente mantido na ignorância do casamento com Eric Thomson. Só a irmã de Gilberte, Arlette Poumaillac, ainda solteira, conhece o segredo. Mas o que aconteceria se, por pura coincidência, Georges Valandray iniciasse uma relação de negócios com Eric Thomson e ficassem amigos?
Director
Odile busca um apartamento novo e maior em Paris. Sua irmã mais nova, guia de turismo que acabou de completar sua tese de doutorado, apaixona-se pelo corretor de imóveis. As histórias se entrelaçam com diálogos citando letras de músicas.
Director
"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories, which have been pared down to three each for these movies. At a certain point in the story of each segment, the five female characters (all played by Sabine Azema) and the four male characters (all played by Pierre Arditi) have their lives skillfully recapped in terms of "what might have happened" if they had made or failed to make certain choices. For example, "No Smoking" focuses chiefly on the relationship between the mild-mannered Miles Coombes and his infinitely more aggressive and ambitious wife, Rowena.
Director
"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories, which have been pared down to three each for these movies. At a certain point in the story of each segment, the five female characters (all played by Sabine Azema) and the four male characters (all played by Pierre Arditi) have their lives skillfully recapped in terms of "what might have happened" if they had made or failed to make certain choices. For example, "No Smoking" focuses chiefly on the relationship between the mild-mannered Miles Coombes and his infinitely more aggressive and ambitious wife, Rowena.
Director
"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories, which have been pared down to three each for these movies. At a certain point in the story of each segment, the five female characters (all played by Sabine Azema) and the four male characters (all played by Pierre Arditi) have their lives skillfully recapped in terms of "what might have happened" if they had made or failed to make certain choices. For example, "No Smoking" focuses chiefly on the relationship between the mild-mannered Miles Coombes and his infinitely more aggressive and ambitious wife, Rowena.
Director
Documentary about George Gershwin directed by Alain Resnais with various celebrities speaking on their admiration and affection for Gershwin's music.
Director
Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville's film concerns the plight of Thomas Wanggai, West Papuan activist who has since died in prison. The short films were commissioned by Amnesty International.
Director
Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.
Writer
Anos 1920. Marcel, um famoso violinista de concerto, visita o velho amigo Pierre e sua animada esposa Romaine. Após o jantar, Marcel reconta uma história pessoal de amor e traição que toca Romaine profundamente. Assim começa um caso apaixonado que acabará por destruir a vida de todos eles.
Director
Anos 1920. Marcel, um famoso violinista de concerto, visita o velho amigo Pierre e sua animada esposa Romaine. Após o jantar, Marcel reconta uma história pessoal de amor e traição que toca Romaine profundamente. Assim começa um caso apaixonado que acabará por destruir a vida de todos eles.
Director
Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but comes back to life. Simon does not want any further medical tests, but the couple are forced to grapple with the possibility of his death. They eventually tell their close friends Jérôme and Judith Martignac about the event. The Martignacs are both clerics, and Judith has just been giving a funeral service for a villager who committed suicide, though Jérôme would have nothing to do with suicide..
Director
O conde Michel Forbek constrói um castelo onde deseja criar uma sociedade utópica. Anos depois, em uma conferência, encontros amorosos prevalecem sobre a educação, Nora Winkle faz previsões sobre a relação de sua amiga e um grupo de crianças cria uma história fantástica sobre os tempos medievais.
Director
O escritor Henri Laborit apresenta três histórias que ilustram as complexidades do comportamento humano. René é um homem de raízes agrícolas que se torna gerente de uma fábrica têxtil. Janine, ex-atriz e agora estilista, tem um caso amoroso com Jean, um político que enfrenta dificuldades em casa.
Filmmaker William Klein documents the Paris student riots that occurred in May of 1968.
Director
Kevin mata um idoso por piedade pois via que o velho sofria e assim desejava. No entanto, no tribunal, Claude, o implacável advogado de acusação quer que o júri mande Kevin para a cadeia. O acusado, porém, é inocentado e vê a mulher de Claude se apaixonar por ele. Quem narra este episódio é Clive, velho escritor à beira da morte que, em seu aniversário, recebe a visita dos filhos. Alain Resnais utiliza-se, mais uma vez, de dispositivos oníricos e psicanalíticos para contar uma estória.
Director
Irresistible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of French industrial and political elite during the early 30s. But nothing lasts forever and when his great scam involving hundreds millions of francs gets exposed result is an unprecedented scandal that almost caused a civil war.
Co-Director
The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions beginning with "We stop everything" and the second "After a total downtime will be revived-reluctantly-that the services and products including lack will prove intolerable. Probably: water to drink, electricity for reading at night, the TSF to say "This is not the end of the world, this is an 01, and now a page of Celestial Mechanics". The implementation of these resolutions is the first day of a new era, Year 01. The Year 01 is emblematic of the challenge of the 1970s and covers such diverse topics as ecology, negation of authority, free love, communal living, rejection of private property and labor.
Director
A series of 41 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political viewpoint through the filmed depiction of real-life events, including workers' strikes and the events of Paris in May '68.
Director
Recuperando-se de uma tentativa de suicídio, um homem é selecionado para participar de uma experiência de viagem no tempo que só foi testada em camundongos. Uma avaria no experimento faz com que o homem passe a experimentar momentos de seu passado em uma ordem aleatória.
Director
In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.
Director
Um grupo de espanhóis refugiados na França tenta organizar protestos contra o governo em Madri. Sua rede está sob constante ameaça pela polícia espanhola e alguns deles foram recentemente presos. O personagem principal Diego (Yves Montand) dedicou toda a sua vida à batalha, mas ele se sente afastado para sempre. Ele não encontra seu lugar nem em seu país adotivo (França) nem no amor. Mas este filme não é sobre a história, é sobre estilo. Alain Resnais tem uma abordagem original neste filme e isso é o que faz com que esse filme valha a pena ser assistido. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Thanks
As câmeras de Ichikawa seguem os Jogos Olímpicos de Verão 1964, da abertura à cerimônia de encerramento. Às vezes, ele concentra-se em espectadores, as vezes em atletas que passam em um borrão, às vezes ele isola um concorrente, outras vezes é um close up de músculos como um martelo é lançado ou uma barra levantada, ou assistir a uma corrida do início ao fim. Vemos vindo de trás ganha em 800 metros das mulheres e 10.000 metros dos homens. Nós seguimos um atleta do Chade desde a chegada às refeições, treinamento, competição e perda. Todo, o filme celebra a nobreza dos atletas empurrando-se para o limite, independentemente da vitória.
Director
Uma viúva, dona de uma loja de antiguidades e o seu enteado vivem perturbados com difíceis lembranças do passado. Um antigo amor volta à vida da mulher e espanta o tédio da sua existência. Já o rapaz é assombrado pela memória das atrocidades que testemunhou durante a guerra da Argélia, quando uma jovem chamada Muriel foi torturada até à morte.
Self (uncredited)
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom.
Un Consommateur (uncredited)
Pierre Wesselrin é um músico parisiense bon-vivant e falido, que um dia recebe um telegrama informando-o de que sua tia rica morreu. Como ela tem apenas dois parentes vivos, Pierre pressupõe que herdará sua fortuna, e convida seus amigos para uma festa celebrando a boa notícia. No dia seguinte, Pierre descobre que foi deserdado e que seu primo, que considerara um idiota, ficou com toda a herança. Sem um tostão, ele é expulso de seu apartamento, e como seus amigos estão todos em férias ou viajando a trabalho, ele é obrigado a dormir na rua.
Director
No luxuoso hotel, um estranho tenta convencer uma mulher casada a fugir com ele, alegando que ambos haviam tido um caso amoroso no ano anterior, em Marienbad. Mas a mulher não se lembra do relacionamento.
Editor
Le chant du Styrène is a 1958 French documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. The film was an order by French industrial group Pechiney to highlight the merits of plastics.
Director
Le chant du Styrène is a 1958 French documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. The film was an order by French industrial group Pechiney to highlight the merits of plastics.
Director
Hiroshima, 1959. Uma atriz francesa casada (Emmanuelle Riva) veio de Paris para trabalhar num filme sobre a paz. Ela tem um affair com um arquiteto japonês (Eiji Okada) também casado, cuja esposa está viajando. Nos dois dias que passam juntos várias lembranças vêem à tona enquanto esperam, de forma aflita, a hora da partida dela. Ela conta que foi "tosquiada", pois se apaixonou por um alemão (Bernard Fresson) quando tinha apenas 18 anos e morava em Nevers, sendo libertada no dia em que seu amor foi morto, já no final da 2ª Guerra Mundial. Por ter amado um inimigo ela foi aprisionada por sua família numa fria e escura adega e agora, 14 anos depois, novamente sente o gosto de viver um amor quase impossível.
Technical Advisor
Uma reflexão experimental sobre os letreiros de Times Square e a publicidade icônica, o primeiro filme de Klein capta os aspectos simultaneamente decadentes e deslumbrantes da Great White Way de Nova Iorque.
Director
A documentary film about occupational diseases shot in 1957 at the Francolor factory in Oissel. It takes the form of a scientific investigation to discover the origin of a mysterious illness that has infected a worker at the factory.
Editor
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Director
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Editor
Primeiro filme de Agnès Varda. Na cidade que nomeia o longa-metragem, duas narrativas se desenrolam em separado. A primeira, uma espécie de documentário sobre os habitantes da pequena aldeia. A segunda, uma ficção sobre um casal em crise, tendo como pano-de-fundo a volta do protagonista a este mesmo local, onde nasceu e passou sua infância. Dessa relação de forças entre a existência de personagens e o ambiente físico real pelos quais eles estão envoltos surge uma característica forte da obra, que ainda estava por se construir, de Varda: a poesia do espaço, nunca visto isoladamente, mas sempre em conjunto com os homens e mulheres que nele convivem.
Editor
Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous, alien being.
Director
Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous, alien being.
Editor
Editor
Short documentary ordered by the magazine "Présence Africaine". From the question "Why is the african in the Human museum while Greek or Egyptian art are in Le Louvre?", the two directors expose and criticise the lack of consideration for African art. The film was censored in France for eight years because of its anti-colonial perspective.
Director
Short documentary ordered by the magazine "Présence Africaine". From the question "Why is the african in the Human museum while Greek or Egyptian art are in Le Louvre?", the two directors expose and criticise the lack of consideration for African art. The film was censored in France for eight years because of its anti-colonial perspective.
Director
Alain Resnais & Robert Hessen use the famous Picasso mural "Guernica" in combination with newspaper headlines in an anti-war cry against the Spanish Civil War. Narration by Jacques Pruvost highlights the Guernica atrocity of April 1937, followed by a poem by Paul Eluard read by María Casares to a discordant score by Guy Bernard.
Director
Pictura is a documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous Hollywood actors. The film attempts to give the general filmgoing public a taste of art history and art appreciation.
Director
Short documentary on Paul Gauguin by Alain Resnais
Editor
Nicole Védrèss' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, and Maurice Chevalier.
Assistant Director
Nicole Védrèss' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, and Maurice Chevalier.
Director
Oscar Winning 1948 short film by Alain Resnais, not to be confused with either the Short 1966 TV doc or the 1991 feature film by Maurice Pialat, both of which shared the same name.
Director
Here is a very rare and unknown documentary directed by Alain Resnais when he was still a student, part of his series about painters of his time. The film is only 6 minutes 20 seconds but it has an audio track, which is not the case with all the films of the series.Christine Boumeester was Henri Goetz 's wife and Resnais also directed a documentary about him.
Director
Directed by Alain Resnais
Director
A very rare and unknown documentary directed by Alain Resnais when he was still a student, part of his series about painters of his time.
Director
An art short subject about a visit to a French painter.
Director
An art short subject about a French surrealist painter, designer, and illustrator.
Director
A visit by the director to the studio of the artist is the basis for this documentary short subject.
Writer
This is the legendary meeting between a young filmmaker and one of the masters of surrealism: the spanish painter Óscar Domínguez, born in La Laguna, Tenerife, in 1906, died in Paris in 1957. In the "Visite," the artist -admirer of Picasso, rebellious disciple of Breton- is presented in solitude, far from the tumult of the exhibitions and parisian circles. An austere approach, almost “povera”, with no audio, nor flashy camera movements, but rarely attractive. Why Resnais could not finish his movie? Hope one of our experts help us to solve the mystery.
Director
This is the legendary meeting between a young filmmaker and one of the masters of surrealism: the spanish painter Óscar Domínguez, born in La Laguna, Tenerife, in 1906, died in Paris in 1957. In the "Visite," the artist -admirer of Picasso, rebellious disciple of Breton- is presented in solitude, far from the tumult of the exhibitions and parisian circles. An austere approach, almost “povera”, with no audio, nor flashy camera movements, but rarely attractive. Why Resnais could not finish his movie? Hope one of our experts help us to solve the mystery.
Extra (uncredited)
At the end of the 15th century, two traveling minstrels Gilles and Dominique come to the castle of Baron Hugues. Gilles charms Anne, Hugues' daughter, while Dominique charms both Hugues and Anne's fiance. Gilles and Dominique are not really in love: they were sent by the Devil to test desperate people. But Anne is so pure that Gilles is caught in his own trap... How will they fight against the Devil?
