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From: rajeev@sftri.UUCP (S.Rajeev)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Alain Resnais
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Date: Sat, 4-May-85 15:12:50 EDT
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> ``Night and Fog'' (``Nuit et brouillard,'' 1955) is still the most powerful
> film on the concentration camp experience.
> 
I'm afraid this note has nothing to do with "Night and Fog", but with
Alain Resnais. I have seen only two of his movies, and they were, to me,
diametrically opposite: "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" and "Last Year at Marienbad".
The former was a searing, troubling, intensely personal movie of a brief
romance between a French actress and a Japanese journalist in Hiroshima.
The latter was a triumph of form over content -- the only reason I did
not fall asleep watching it was that they repeated all the dialogue (in
French) twice and so slowly that I could understand it. There is only one
other movie that comes to mind that was as sterile and pointless in its
pursuit of style: "The Draughtsman's Contract". Was Resnais trying to
make a point with "Marienbad"? Some of you Resnais fans out there (I am
one too, on the strength of "Hiroshima") -- please comment.
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