Alain Resnais

For my Analytic Project, I would like to examine how Alain Resnais’ directorial skills helped create a certain ‘mise-en- scene’ to helped depict certain themes alive in the film. A French/ Italian play screen written by Alain Robbe-Grillet about an unconventional French drama, a group of unnamed aristocrats interact at a palatial château, resulting in an enigmatic tale told partially in flashback. X is convinced that he has met the beautiful A before in the Czech resort town of Marienbad, and implies

action begins after the war, when there is nothing but ruins and desolation everywhere…” Francois Truffaut Francois Truffaut continued on to say that Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog, made in 1955, was the “greatest film ever made”. The 30-minute film based on the horrors of the Holocaust and Nazi concentration camps after World War II combines Resnais’ own cinematography with original images and footage of the captives in their unfathomable state. The film is lead with a somber narrative that not only

“Hiroshima mon amour” by Alain Resnais, and “Level 5” by Chris Marker. I will discuss the similarities and differences between them, going through the plot, the cinematography and the theme of each movie. I will also talk about the protagonists, actions, technical stuff, and how these are aimed at each film’s target audience. First of all, I would like to represent each movie. “Hiroshima mon amour” is a 1959 drama film, directed by French film director Alain Resnais. The movie is about

In Alain Resnais’ film “Hiroshima mon amour” (1959), the interplay of opposite themes runs throughout, often juxtaposing each other very obviously: war and peace, sex and death, past and present, reality and memory. One of the central themes of the film, the relationship between time and memory, one that Resnais explored in many of his subsequent films, gives rise to the notion of forgetting which becomes a very important element of the film. Resnais addresses the notion of forgetting through the

filmmaker used the decolonization war as the basis for a motion picture that would acknowledge both the scale and the hazards of historical amnesia. Few postwar films depict an armed conflict's far-reaching impact on a community more accurately than Alain Resnais's Muriel ou le Temps d'un retour (1963), which testifies about the relationship between past and present by concentrating on two seemingly different individuals with a shared inability to move beyond the past. Following in the footsteps of

In 1956, just a few years after the Holocaust came to an end, director Alain Resnais released the documentary Nuit Et Brouillard meaning Night and Fog. The film is presented in both color and black and white, and is narrated in French by Michael Bouquet. In the film, the abandoned grounds of Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Majdanek are pictured. As images of the camps are shown, the narrator describes one of the most devastating historical events in detail. Each element of the film come together

Hiroshima Mon Amour was directed by Alain Resnais and had a script written by Marguerite Duras, who was an author and gave the film a book like feel. This made you feel as if you were reading a story, one of the best ways this is conveyed is through the voiceovers “she” has. The film takes place in a time period of a post-war Hiroshima Japan, and the setting, as well as the time period, plays a major part in this film, by showing the audience views a war-torn country as it rebuilds and rebrands itself

“Triumph of the Will” and “Night and Fog,” portray Hitler’s vision for Germany, and the findings of Allied liberators of concentration camps in the beginning of World War II. A comparison of the films present two very different views of what Hitler deemed necessary for Germany. They each displayed propaganda in a way they’re eye-catching simply because of the raw footage. It took everything that we knew about pre WWII and corrected it, so that we knew the truth about how the people of Germany felt

Fog is a short French documentary released in 1956, directed by Alain Resnais. Night and Fog feature two-abandoned concentration camp grounds, Auschwitz, and Majdanek. The film is renowned as an artistic piece that captivates the complexity of trauma that “transformed the post-war documentary” to “dismantle the realist mode that offered a transparent, conclusive, and morally reassuring account of historical trauma” (Kennelly). Resnais technique to transition/changeover from black and white to colour

ideological viewpoint, focusing on suffering and remembrance rather than the tragedies themselves. This point of view can be traced back to the start of the French New Wave movement where using film to portray thoughts and emotions allowed filmmaker Alan Resnais the opportunity to produce a film with his own strong creative touch. The first scene in this film opens on a dark room inside of which a couple lay naked wrapped in each other’s arms. Light classical music plays in the background, and She tells