In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George is fatally ill and only has a few months to live.

Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy head of family. As he looks through the wallet and examines the photos of Marguerite, he finds he's fascinated with her and her life, and soon his curiosity about her becomes an obsession.

《雕像也会死亡》（Les statues meurent aussi，阿兰·雷乃、克里斯·马尔凯，1953年出品，27分钟）尖锐地批评了西方殖民主义对非洲传统艺术的戕害以及自称热爱非洲艺术的上等阶层的贪婪与伪善。本片的主角是来自黑非洲的人物雕像、面具和其他非洲艺术品，但是它们的演出场所并非黑人的故乡，而是白人的欧洲，艺术品市场和艺术品拍卖会是它们频频出没和滞留的中转地。这些本来被非洲部族用来抵抗死亡的面具和雕像，如今却呆在博物馆的橱窗里静静地死去。此时，画外音告诉我们：“当人死去的时候，他便进入了历史；当这些雕像死去的时候，它们进入了艺术；这种关于死亡的学问，我们最后称之为文化。”由于本片具有鲜明而强烈的社会批判意识，自拍竣之日起即遭到法国政府禁映，直到1963年才解禁。本片由长于剪辑的阿兰·雷乃操刀剪辑，由强于写作的克里斯·马尔凯撰写解说，充分发挥了两人各自的强项，可谓强强合作的结晶。
This collaborative film, banned for more than a decade by French censors as an attack on French colonialism (and now available only in shortened form), is a deeply felt study of African art and the decline it underwent as a result of its contact with Western civilization. Marker's characteristically witty and thoughtful commentary is combined with images of a stark formal beauty in this passionate outcry against the fate of an art that was once integral to communal life but became debased as it fell victim to the demands of another culture.

On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters based on his own family are shaped by his fantasies and memories, alongside his caustic commentary on their behaviour.

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

1959 film by Alain Resnais

In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.

1961 film by Alain Resnais

From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It's up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun...