Love Unto Death

Criterion Channel

The films of French director, Alain Resnais, are by far the most intellectual films I’ve seen. You cannot sit back and enjoy an Alain Resnais movie. He doesn’t want it that way. But you can lean forward and enjoy an Alain Resnais film.

Resnais is a personal favorite of mine both because of his poetic formal experiments and because his work leaves you wi…