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Category / Resnais, Alain

November 30, 2022November 30, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

  • Criterion Collection, Resnais, Alain
  • 1961, Alain Resnais, France
  • 4 Comments

Extramarital affairs don’t get any more enigmatic and impenetrable than Resnais’ hypnotic Venice Golden Lion-winning anti-romance that boldly discards structure and narrative, leaving only unreliable memories and narrators. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 6, 2021November 30, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Hiroshima mon amour (1959)

  • Criterion Collection, Resnais, Alain
  • 1959, Alain Resnais, France, Japan
  • 5 Comments

My favourite feature debut from the French New Wave—an extraordinary meditation on trauma, memory and love as Resnais merges the historical, geographical and the personal in an intelligent and sensuous way.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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July 18, 2020June 3, 2022 by Eternality Tan

I Want to Go Home (1989)

  • Resnais, Alain
  • 1989, Alain Resnais, France
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An under-appreciated oddball of a film by Alain Resnais that dabbles with US-French cultural idiosyncrasies as well as the tension between popular culture and intellectual scholarship.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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June 3, 2020June 3, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Melo (1986)

  • Resnais, Alain
  • 1986, Alain Resnais, France
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Resnais blurs the lines between theatre and cinema in this mature treatise on the ‘love triangle’, marked by a trio of outstanding performances. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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May 27, 2020October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)

  • Resnais, Alain
  • 1983, Alain Resnais, France
  • 1 Comment

Resnais’ tonally-jarring ‘musical-drama’ that intercuts across three timelines feels too artificially-constructed and incoherent to make any meaningful sense.

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

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May 25, 2020March 6, 2021 by Eternality Tan

My American Uncle (1980)

  • Resnais, Alain
  • 1980, Alain Resnais, France
  • 1 Comment

An unexpected critical success, Resnais’ sly, mosaic-like film about behavioural psychology as explored through the personal stories of a trio of interconnecting characters is a masterclass in associative editing, and one of his finest pictures.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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