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Hiroshima Mon Amour, 1959

Starring: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada

Directed by: Alain Resnais

Written by: Marguerite Duras

Language: French, Japanese, English

Country: France, Japan

Runtime: 90 min

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Rating:7.9

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The mood of Hiroshima Mon Amour is thought provoking, gloomy, and contemplative. The plot centers around culture clash, human nature, and being haunted by the past. It is a drama, foreign, and romance movie. Stylistically, Hiroshima Mon Amour is New Wave, is nonlinear, and includes a voice over. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. Hiroshima Mon Amour is set in Japan and France. It happens during World War 2. Visually, it is black and white. Hiroshima Mon Amour is known for being essential viewing and critically acclaimed.

Summary of Hiroshima Mon Amour

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.

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Language:	French, Japanese, English
Country:	France, Japan
Release date:	16 May 1960
Runtime:	90 min

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Emmanuelle Riva

as Elle

Eiji Okada

as Lui

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This film is probably the most obvious example of the French cinema's supposed penchant for hyper-intellectual, semi-abstract, obscure drama. The lovers, whose names are never really given, speak in dialogue that might have been written in blank... Read and rate it

08.October.2009
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by: DukeofOmnium
DukeofOmnium rated this movie0/10

There were two conflicting impulse in me when I saw this film. On the one hand I found the cinematography and acting to be very good. The conflicted relationships between these characters made for good film. How much of the past should be remembered... Read and rate it

19.March.2009
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by: Brad Cole
Brad Cole rated this movie6/10Okay

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