Hiroshima, Mon Amour Movie Review 1959

Presented in a complex network of flashbacks this profoundly moving drama explores the shadow of history over the personal lives of a lonely French actress (Riva), who's working in Hiroshima, and the Japanese architect (Okada) with whom she's having an affair. She has suffered during the war in occupied France, while he has survived the city's bombing--and their pasts deeply affect their present. Resnais' first feature film and highly influential; adapted by Marguerite Duras from her book. Japanese with subtitles.

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Available on VHS
Running time 88 minutes.
Originally from Japanese, French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Only the Lonely, Postwar, Japan, Flashback, 4 Bones

Screenplay

Marguerite Duras

Cast

Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Bernard Fresson, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud

Cinematography

Sacha Vierny, Michio Takahashi

Director

Alain Resnais

Music

Georges Delerue, Giovanni Fusco

Producer

Argos Films, Pathe, Samy Halfon

Awards

N.Y. Film Critics 1960: Foreign Film.