French New Wave film­mak­er Alain Resnais, who died at the age of 91 last week, changed cin­e­ma for­ev­er with a string of intel­lec­tu­al­ly rig­or­ous, non­lin­ear mas­ter­pieces like Hiroshi­ma Mon Amour (1959) and Last Year at Marien­bad (1961). Both films are about Resnais’s two obses­sions – time and mem­o­ry. Hiroshi­ma is about a doomed rela­tion­ship between … Con­tin­ue read­ing Watch Alain Resnais’ Short, Evoca­tive Film on the Nation­al Library of France (1956)