Hiroshima Mon Amour - Criterion Collection
starring: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson
directed by: Alain Resnais
directed by: Alain Resnais
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 9780780026933
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0780026934
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 24, 2003
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 13438
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: May 16, 1960
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Editorial Review:
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A cornerstone of French cinema, Alain Resnais' first feature is one of the most influential films of all time. A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering. Utilizing an innovative flashback structure and an Academy Award®-nominated screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras, Resnais delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish, in this moody masterwork.
Amazon.com:
An extraordinary and deeply moving film that retains much of its power since its original release in 1959, Alain Resnais's Hiroshima, Mon Amour is the story of a French woman (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese man (Eiji Okada) who become lovers in the city of Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb to end World War II in the Pacific. Written by Marguerite Duras and juggled, as if by wandering thoughts, in chronology and setting by Resnais, the film reveals the miserable and mortifying experiences of each character during the war and suggests the obvious healing properties of their relationship in the present. An emotional allusion or two can certainly be made with the more recent The English Patient, but nothing can quite prepare one for Resnais's extreme yet intuitively accessible experiments in fusing the past, present, and future into great sweeps of subjectively experienced memory. Yet audiences have never had trouble relating to this bold milestone of the French New Wave, largely because at its heart is a genuinely affecting, soulful love story. --Tom Keogh
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- Sleeping with the Enemy"Hiroshima Mon Amour" is a groundbreaking French New Wave movie. It begins with the French actress ... Read More
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- A French Masterpiece about Memory and Forgetting.French film director Alain Resnais is best known for Night and Fog (1955), Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), ... Read More
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- The inaugural event of the French Nouvelle VagueGodard anointed it "Faulkner meets Stravinsky". That should be enough of an evaluation. But if you insist... ... Read More
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- Is It A Documentary? Is It a Movie? We'll Never Know.....Part of my fascination for this French film is the fact that it never once makes it clear if its either a documentary ... Read More
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- Hiroshima Mon AmourAlain Resnais's widely acknowledged masterpiece is a work of profound beauty. Beyond its sensitive presentation of a most ... Read More
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