[Reader-list] A Retrospective of Alain Resnais Films

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	A Retrospective of Alain Resnais Films 
	
	
	 
	 
	 tuesday 20th november 5 pm 
	Guernica(1950) / Robert Hessons & Alain  Resnais / 13’
	Private Fears in Public Places (2006) / 120’ 
	
	Guernica(1950) / Robert Hessons & Alain Resnais / 13’
	 
	On April 26 1937 the small Basque town of Guernica was bombed without warning by the German aviation. Two thousand people, all civilians, got killed. Like millions all over the world, Pablo  Picasso was  shocked a nd he translated his emotion into a magnificent but terrifying picture bearing the name of the martyred city. This film does not only comment on the painting, it also gives it a new life through frantic camera and sound effects.
	 
	 
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	Private Fears in Public Places (2006) / Alain Resnais / 120’
	 
	Seven lonely lives in Paris: a middle-aged estate agent who thinks a colleague is sending messages in video tapes she loans him; his co-worker whose Bible is close at hand in times of stress; her late-night charge, who's an angry, nasty bedridden old man; his son, a patient bartender; the bartender's best  patron, an ex-soldier who's lost his moorings while his fiancée looks for a large flat for them; and, the estate agent's much younger sister, who answers ads in the personal and waits in cafés with a red flower pinned on her jacket. Will any connect? Can open hearts trump fears?