SUBJECTS

Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Drama, Man-woman relationships -- Drama, Love -- Drama, Actresses -- France -- Drama, Architects -- Japan -- Drama, French -- Japan -- Drama, World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war -- Drama

Hiroshima mon amour

(Hiroshima mon amour), (Hiroshima, my love), (24-jikan no joji), (Hiroshima my love), (Hiroshima, mon amour)

Alain Resnais
France, Japan, 1959

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“A cornerstone film of the French New Wave, Alain Resnais’ first feature is one of the most influential films of all time.”—Criterion

In Hiroshima, a French actress (Emmanuèle Riva) working on an antiwar film meets a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada). They become lovers but their encounter only revives memories of the war, revealing that the woman is her past, the man, his. Their struggle to come to terms with the idea that life goes on is reflected in images from a collective memory in which the film's pacifist subtheme is skillfully developed. The seamless integration of past and present, the poetic fusion of music to text and of image to the clipped poetry of dialogue, were shared tropes of director Resnais and screenwriter Marguerite Duras. 

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Alain Resnais: selected works (program note), Harvard Film Archive, 2005

Hiroshima mon amour (program note), Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group, 2005

Hiroshima mon amour (distributor materials), Criterion Collection, 2003

Time and again: the cinema of Alain Resnais (program note), Film Society of Lincoln Center, 2000

Memory Montage Modernism: the films of Alain Resnais (program note), Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group, James Quandt, 2000

Hiroshima mon amour (distributor materials), New Yorker Films, 1995

Hiroshima, mon amour (program note), Vancouver International Film Festival, John Bentley Mays, 1995

Apocalyptic desires: Marguerite Duras before 'The lover' (program), Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group, 1994

Hiroshima mon amour (program note), Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group, 1994

The films of Alain Resnais (distributor materials), New Yorker Films, 1993

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