Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955): France

Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy.  Viewed in 3 parts online at YouTube. Alain Resnais’ Night and Fogis a deeply poetic yet visually disturbing film, accompanied by an unsettling, repetitive musical score by Hanns Eisler. Resnais uses “muted colors…of tracking shots and black and white archival footage,”*  in an effort to take us from present to past, to … Continue reading Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955): France