Alain Resnais

Memory, love and death are recurring themes in the films of Alain Resnais. Although his name is associated with the new wave of French cinema that emerged in the 1950s, his career represents a unique time and space that set him apart from that movement. In it, the restlessness and sensitivity of a film director, a writer, a set designer, a musician and an artist are present at the same time, in such a way that the montage and the photography suggest fascinating associations between characters and settings. Night and Fog, Hiroshima mon amour, Last Year at Marienbad and Muriel are some of the most outstanding titles in a career that spanned six decades. Distinguished at the Berlin, Cannes and Venice festivals, Resnais enjoyed notable success with critics and audiences, which, however, did not approve of his experimental forms of cinema. From territories that border on dreams, his films speak to us passionately about the wounds that time prints. Alain Resnais. Los entresijos de la memoria celebrates the centenary of his birth with a monograph, the first of these characteristics published in Spanish, which claims the validity of an essential figure to understand not only a brilliant era of French cinema, but also the stylistic keys of the narrative that permeated much of the auteur cinema produced during the second half of the 20th century.