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Night And Fog
»rank: 8703
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Though only a short subject, this groundbreaking documentary remains one of the most influential and powerful explorations of the Holocaust ever made. Director Alain Resnais bluntly presents an indictment not only of the Nazis but of the world community, and the film is all the more remarkable for its harsh judgment considering the time in which it was made, less than a decade after the end of the war, when questions of responsibility were not yet being addressed. Juxtaposing archival clips from the concentration camps across Germany ...
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Muriel - DVD (French/English S
»rank: 15628
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Alain Resnais's 1963 memory film Muriel is a fascinating study of the relationship between the way things are remembered--a blend of fact, dream, and falsification--and the way things really are, with cinema itself the crucial bridge. A woman (Delphine Seyrig), haunted by the memory of her first love, meets up with him again and finds he's a long way from being the man she recalls. Meanwhile, her stepson (Jean-Baptiste Thierrée) is preoccupied with a torture death he witnessed in Algeria. ln the case of the former, the ...
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Life Is a Bed of Roses
»rank: 15628
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Alain Resnais's 1963 memory film Muriel is a fascinating study of the relationship between the way things are remembered--a blend of fact, dream, and falsification--and the way things really are, with cinema itself the crucial bridge. A woman (Delphine Seyrig), haunted by the memory of her first love, meets up with him again and finds he's a long way from being the man she recalls. Meanwhile, her stepson (Jean-Baptiste Thierrée) is preoccupied with a torture death he witnessed in Algeria. ln the case of the former, the ...
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La Guerre est finie (Widescreen)
»rank: 23762
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Alain Resnais's 1963 memory film Muriel is a fascinating study of the relationship between the way things are remembered--a blend of fact, dream, and falsification--and the way things really are, with cinema itself the crucial bridge. A woman (Delphine Seyrig), haunted by the memory of her first love, meets up with him again and finds he's a long way from being the man she recalls. Meanwhile, her stepson (Jean-Baptiste Thierrée) is preoccupied with a torture death he witnessed in Algeria. ln the case of the former, the ...
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Hiroshima mon amour
»rank: 21806
Chroniques et points de vue:From :An extraordinary and deeply moving film that retains much of its power since its original release in 1959, Alain Resnais's Hiroshima, Mon Amour is the story of a French woman (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese man (Eiji 0kada) who become lovers in the city of Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb to end World War ll in the Pacific. Written by Marguerite Duras and juggled, as if by wandering thoughts, in chronology and setting by Resnais, the film reveals the miserable and mortifying experiences of ...
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Not On The Lips (2003)
»rank: 31654
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A frothy 1925 operetta, performed by a glittering cast that includes Sabine Azema and Audrey Tautou, might not sound precisely like the great director Alain Resnais's glass of champagne. But Not on the Lips (Pas sur la bouche) is in a line of Resnais films that uses false sets and stylized acting for its effect. This musical farce follows a wife (Azema) trying to keep her husband (Pierre Arditi) from learning that she was actually married once before--to an American who is about to become hubby's business ...
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I Want to Go Home
»rank: 31654
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A frothy 1925 operetta, performed by a glittering cast that includes Sabine Azema and Audrey Tautou, might not sound precisely like the great director Alain Resnais's glass of champagne. But Not on the Lips (Pas sur la bouche) is in a line of Resnais films that uses false sets and stylized acting for its effect. This musical farce follows a wife (Azema) trying to keep her husband (Pierre Arditi) from learning that she was actually married once before--to an American who is about to become hubby's business ...
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Mon Oncle d'Amerique
»rank: 31654
Chroniques et points de vue: essential video:Following a pair of films (Stavisky, Providence) that were more conventionally narrative than his explosively experimental early works (Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad), French New Wave pioneer director Alain Resnais began a cycle of films beginning in 1980 (all written by Jean Gruault) that delved deeply into his philosophical and aesthetic concerns again. The first of these was Mon 0ncle d'Amerique, starring Gérard Depardieu as one of three middle-class characters undergoing great degrees of personal stress. Presented as a docudrama of sorts with some ...
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Short 3: Authority
»rank: 54122
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Short 3: Authority, the Warner Bros.-revised reissue of PolyGram's digital magazine, is a tenuously linked but rich collection of classic and contemporary short films. Apart from Performance McKean, a slight little piece with Michael McKean doing a subdued Denis Leary-esque riff, nothing really anchors the theme of 'authority,' but Alain Resnais's powerful and moving 1955 documentary Night and Fog gives the collection both class and heft. lt was the first film to confront the issues of the Holocaust, and the horrifying black-and-white archival footage has lost none ...
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Private Fears in Public Places
»rank: 54122
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Short 3: Authority, the Warner Bros.-revised reissue of PolyGram's digital magazine, is a tenuously linked but rich collection of classic and contemporary short films. Apart from Performance McKean, a slight little piece with Michael McKean doing a subdued Denis Leary-esque riff, nothing really anchors the theme of 'authority,' but Alain Resnais's powerful and moving 1955 documentary Night and Fog gives the collection both class and heft. lt was the first film to confront the issues of the Holocaust, and the horrifying black-and-white archival footage has lost none ...
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