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Hiroshima mon amour (French pronunciation: [iʁoʃima mɔ̃n‿amuʁ], lit. Hiroshima, My Love, Japanese: 二十四時間の情事, romanized: Nijūyojikan no jōji, lit. 'Twenty-four hour love affair'), is a 1959 romantic drama film directed by French director Alain Resnais and written by French author Marguerite Duras.
A French actress and a Japanese architect have a brief affair in Hiroshima, where she is filming an anti-war movie. The film explores their different perspectives on war and their past traumas through flashbacks and jump cuts.
- (36K)
- Drama, Romance
- Alain Resnais
- 1960-05-16
Dec 4, 2018 · The Devastating Importance of Hiroshima Mon Amour. No other French New Wave film tackles the important aftermath of a devastating historical event quite like Hiroshima Mon Amour. An intense budding romance brews between a French woman, Elle, and a Japanese man, Lui, and is self aware of the devastation that was the bombing of Hiroshima.
- Amanda Nix
Hiroshima mon amour se présente à la fois comme une fiction évoquant la guerre et les bombes lancées sur la ville, un poème d'amour et de mort et un appel à la réconciliation entre les peuples. Son retentissement est mondial.
A classic of the French New Wave, this 1959 film by Alain Resnais explores the memories and emotions of a French actress and a Japanese architect in postwar Hiroshima. The Criterion Collection offers a new 4K restoration, commentary, interviews, and more.
Page 1 of 2, 3 total items. The deep conversation between a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) and a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of...
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- Drama
Hiroshima mon amour. Directed by Alain Resnais • 1959 • France, Japan. Starring Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada. A cornerstone of the French New Wave, the first feature from Alain Resnais is one of the most influential films of all time.
