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with 1998 -rrb- juliette binoche , 23rd césar awards ceremony -lrb- 1 march 2014 paris , france vannes , morbihan , brittany , france 250px 3 june 1922 alain resnais césars 2recorte.jpg alain resnais
 alain resnais film director , film editor , screenwriter , cinematographer
alain resnais

alain resnais -lrb- ; 3 june 19221 march 2014 -rrb- was a french film director whose career extended over more than six decades .
after training as a film editor in the mid-1940s , he went on to direct a number of short films which included `` night and fog '' -lrb- 1955 -rrb- , an influential documentary about the nazi concentration camps .
resnais began making feature films in the late 1950s and consolidated his early reputation with `` hiroshima mon amour '' -lrb- 1959 -rrb- , `` last year at marienbad '' -lrb- 1961 -rrb- , and `` muriel '' -lrb- 1963 -rrb- , all of which adopted unconventional narrative techniques to deal with themes of troubled memory and the imagined past .
these films were contemporary with , and associated with , the french new wave -lrb- `` la nouvelle vague '' -rrb- , though resnais did not regard himself as being fully part of that movement .
he had closer links to the `` left bank '' group of authors and filmmakers who shared a commitment to modernism and an interest in left-wing politics .
he also established a regular practice of working on his films in collaboration with writers previously unconnected with the cinema such as jean cayrol , marguerite duras , alain robbe-grillet , jorge semprún and jacques sternberg .
in later films , resnais moved away from the overtly political topics of some previous works and developed his interests in an interaction between cinema and other cultural forms , including theatre , music , and comic books .
this led to imaginative adaptations of plays by alan ayckbourn , henri bernstein and jean anouilh , as well as films featuring various kinds of popular song .
his films frequently explore the relationship between consciousness , memory , and the imagination , and he was noted for devising innovative formal structures for his narratives .
throughout his career , he won many awards from international film festivals and academies .
