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Tag Archives: Alain Resnais
Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983) Alain Resnais, Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin
Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. Read More »
Smoking/No Smoking (1993) Alain Resnais, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi, Peter Hudson, Comedy
In Yorkshire, Toby Teasdale is the alcoholic director of a school and married with two children with Celia Teasdale that is very unhappy. Read More »
Not on the lips (2003) Alain Resnais, Sabine Azéma, Isabelle Nanty, Audrey Tautou, Comedy, Musical, Romance
A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. Read More »
On connaît la chanson / Same Old Song (1997) Alain Resnais, Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Odile is looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille just completed her doctoral thesis has fallen in love with an estate agent Read More »
Muriel ou Le temps d’un retour / Muriel, or The Time of Return (1963) Alain Resnais, Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Nita Klein, Drama
In the seacoast town of Boulogne, Hélène sells antique furniture, living with her step-son, Bernard, who’s back from military duty in Algiers. Read More »
Hiroshima mon amour (1959) Alain Resnais, Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Drama, Romance
A French woman and a Japanese man have an affair while she is in Japan making a film about peace and the impact of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, The man, an architect, lost his family in the bombing. Read More »