Alain Robbe-grillet
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Biography
Filmography
Family & Companions
Notes
Named an Officer of the Order of Merit
Named Chevalier in the Legion of Honor
Biography
A leading figure of the French Nouveau Roman ("New Novel") movement of the late 1950s, Robbe-Grillet wrote the screenplay for Alain Resnais' labyrinthine "Last Year at Marienbad" (1961) which incorporated many of the characteristic features of his novels: an undermining of chronological and narrative structure; an "objective" style supposedly free from authorial involvement; an investigation of the nature of memory and repetition; and a stylized eroticism. The film remains a landmark of European art cinema. Robbe-Grillet made his directorial debut with "L'Immortelle" (1963) and continued to navigate similar thematic and stylistic terrain, though to decreasingly innovative and successful effect. His introduction to the published screenplay of "Last Year at Marienbad" raised interesting theoretical questions on the differences between the novel and the film as media.
Filmography
Director (Feature Film)
Cast (Feature Film)
Writer (Feature Film)
Misc. Crew (Feature Film)
Life Events
1945
Served as charge de mission at Institut National des Statistiques
1954
Served as literary advisor to Editions de Minuit, Paris
1961
First screenplay, "Last Year at Marienbad"
1963
Made directorial debut with "L'Immortelle"; also scripted
1966
With wife, appeared in "Trans-Europ-Express"; also directed and scripted
1983
Directed "La belle captive/The Beautiful Prisoner"
1995
Helmed the crime thriller, "Un bruit qui rend fou/The Blue Villa" starring Fred Ward
2006
Directed last feature before his death, "C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle" starring James Wilby
Family
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Notes
Named an Officer of the Order of Merit
Named Chevalier in the Legion of Honor
