Je t’Aime, Je t’Aime
Memory and its experience is the central subject of Alain Resnais’ film Je t’Aime, Je t’Aime (1968). Je t’Aime, Je t’Aime is a much bolder approach to the philosophical writings of Henri… Read more »
Tag: Alain Resnais
Last Year At Marienbad
French Spiritualist philosopher Henri Bergson outlined two types of human memory. The first is Motor Mechanism, when a person purposefully memorizes a text or moment. The second is involuntary memory,… Read more »
Depicting Time
The concept of duration is essential to the artificial experience of time and memory in linear narrative filmmaking. Duration within the narrative, marking the passage of time, is signified most… Read more »
La vie est un roman
La vie est un roman (1983) opens in 1914, just before the outbreak of WWI. Count Forbek (Ruggero Raimondi) has assembled his closest friends, a collective of France’s most esteemed… Read more »
Mélo
Alain Resnais is a difficult figure to place within the world of the cinema. He is most certainly an auteur, an intellectual, and a humanist all at once, imbuing his… Read more »
