A portrait of the director Alain Resnais, whose protean work reveals new secrets with each viewing: unbridled fantasy, a sense of the absurd, imagination, playing with the audience, a taste for song, but also a certain darkness, a disillusioned assessment of human nature and what it has produced.
This documentary takes us to the heart of everything that makes this great filmmaker so unique. Nuit et brouillard, Hiroshima mon amour, Providence, L’amour à mort, Smoking/No smoking... a fundamental body of work on the scale of the history of French cinema, if not cinema worldwide.
The Resnais "style" also owes a lot to music and the director has always paid close attention to the voices, their tessitura and inflections.