To bind these themes into a melancholy love story about a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) who has a brief affair with a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada), Mr. Resnais commissioned a screenplay from the writer Marguerite Duras, then one of the emerging stars of the «nouveau roman» movement, which was challenging
literary narrative conventions.
---- «English: The basic skills and knowledge that are the foundations of learning how to read (e.g., letter / sound recognition, decoding skills, vocabulary), reading comprehension (e.g., exposure to a variety of
literary genres), writing
conventions (e.g., spelling, writing mechanics), and writing forms (e.g.,
narrative, persuasive, expository).»
Rooted in the
literary - with particular nods to the
conventions of horror and romance - and yet aborted from traditional
narratives, his work seeks to explore the corporeal and tactile through high spec digital technologies, highlighting their deadness and flatness as jarring against the human story.