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Hiroshima mon amour

Turkish title: Hiroşima Sevgilim

“From the measureless depths of a woman's emotions...”

1959 · 1 h 30 min
Directed by Alain Resnais
DramaRomance

Cast

Emmanuelle Riva Eiji Okada

Credits

Written by: Marguerite Duras
Music: Georges Delerue Giovanni Fusco
Produced by: Anatole Dauman Samy Halfon

Plot

In Hiroshima, fourteen years after the bomb, a French actress who is making a peace film has a brief affair with a Japanese architect. As they talk, she is haunted by the memory of a love in the French town of Nevers, with a German soldier killed at the liberation, and their personal stories merge with the memory of the city. Alain Resnais's 1959 film, with a script by Marguerite Duras, is a landmark about memory and forgetting.

Sinekatalog’s take

Resnais's French New Wave landmark has a French actress and Japanese architect talk through memory and trauma. Poetic, fragmented and daring in its editing, it reshaped how cinema handles the past.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.8 / 10 (39,986 votes)
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