Alain Resnais

Alain Resnais (born in Vannes, France June 3, 1922, died March 1, 2014) directed the Paul Gaugin segment of the documentary  Pictura: An Adventure in Art (1951), which won a Special Award at the 1952 Golden Globes “For the outstanding cultural film of 1951”. He directed French New Wave classics like Hiroshima, mon amour (1960) from a screenplay by Marguerite Duras and Last Year at Marienbad (L’Année dernière à Marienbad, 1961) from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet, political films like Muriel (Muriel ou le Temps d’un retour, 1963) with Delphine Seyrig, The War Is Over (La guerre est finie, 1966) with Ives Montand, and Stavisky (1974) with Jean-Paul Belmondo.  He directed Providence (1977) in English with John Gielgud, My American Uncle (Mon oncle d’Amérique, 1980) with Gérard Depardieu, Life Is a Bed of Roses (La vie est un roman, 1983) with Vittorio Gassman, Mélo (1986) with Fanny Ardant, Private Fears in Public Places (Cœurs, 2006).