His translations introduced the English to Jean Anouilh, a French dramatist whom they came to like much better than himself.

ECONOMIST: Christopher Fry

Resnais (working with texts by the playwright Jean Anouilh) revisits the artistic shocks and personal passions of his own youth and offers loving tributes to cinematic landmarks he passed along the way, setting up, by means of some deliciously jolting special effects, a darkly whimsical new one in uncharted ground.

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