Hiroshima Mon Amour [videorecording]
2016
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Alain Resnais's multi-award-winning Hiroshima, Mon Amour is neither an easy film to watch nor to synopsize, but it remains one of the high-water marks of the French "new wave" movement. Resnais and scenarist Marguerite Duras weave a complex story concerning a French actress's (Emmanuelle Riva) experiences in occupied France, juxtaposed with the horrendous ordeal of a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) coping psychologically with the bombing of Hiroshima. These stories are offered in quick flashback vignettes, which permeate the contemporary story of the woman's relationship with the architect in contemporary Hiroshima. The characters are of the Then and the Now simultaneously, much like the famous watch that was dug out of the ruins of Hiroshima, its hands permanently affixed at 9:15. Resnais refuses to honor the traditional "unities" of film: we are never certain at any time whether we're watching the events of 1959 or of 1945.
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Imprint:
Studiocanal 2016.
Collation:
1 dvd (86 min) : Dolby Digital.
Notes:
Originally released: 1959
Credits:
Composers, Georges Delerue, Giovanni Fusco ; Director, Alain Resnais ; Screenwriter, Marguerite Duras.
Performers:
Cast, Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Bernard Fresson, Pierre Barbaud.
Audience:
(12): Suitable for 12 years and over. Contains documentary images of atomic bomb victims.
Dewey class:
791.4372
Language:
French
BRN:
612726
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