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Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:17
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: In Alain Resnais's artistic adaptation of Margueurite Duras's HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR, a French actress working in Japan meets a Japanese architect with whom she has an affair. Their relationship... In Alain Resnais's artistic adaptation of Margueurite Duras's HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR, a French actress working in Japan meets a Japanese architect with whom she has an affair. Their relationship consists largely of conversations about the bombing at Hiroshima, the horrors that he and his family endured, and her perception of it back home in occupied France. With a camera that operates sometimes like a slide show, other times like a space vessel--switching easily in and out of flashbacks and gently blending footage of both Japan and France--the story unfolds more like a collection of memories than a chronological narrative. Perhaps the most dramatic scene is the unforgettable opener: An impeccably beautiful close-up in black and white depicts lovers writhing first in the ash of bomb fallout, which is washed away by rain, then, as their skin dries, they begin to perspire from making love. She--the nameless female lead (Emmanuele Riva)--remembers everything of the war. But He--the nameless male lead (Eiji Okada)--challenges her to determine if what she remembers is real or just a projection. As with most Marquerite Duras novels, it's hard to determine exactly what happened and what didn't. HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR is truly like a poem, using the emotional words of Duras to propel Resnais's ultrapowerful images. [More]
Starring: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Bernard Fresson
Starring: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Bernard Fresson
Director: Alain Resnais
Director: Alain Resnais
Screenwriter: Marguerite Duras
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Reviews for Hiroshima Mon Amour
It's one of the landmark French New Wave films that featured innovative flashback techniques.
Resnais' audacious work in narrative and temporal structure, with screenplay from Duras, the film has endured due to its lyrical quality in depicting a love affair between a French actress and a Japanese architect in post WWII; a must-see for film lovers
Hiroshima's imagery and music give it a feel at once modern and timeless, this is a beautiful piece of work.
As a milestone of film, Hiroshima, Mon Amour cannot be overestimated.
A somewhat stilted but still emotionally and intellectually engaging glimpse at profound and challenging questions of the role of memory in our sense of identity.
Although it presents, on occasion, a baffling repetition of words and ideas, much like vaguely recurring dreams, it, nevertheless, leaves the impression of a careful coalescence of art and craftsmanship.
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