Alain Resnais

“As it is, I always will be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must always be a little in love with death” – Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Jouney Into Night

He began his career as a documentary filmmaker, but rather than trying to capture ‘reality’ in a traditional sense he created cinematic essays on topics which included art, the Holocaust, and plastics....