Hiroshima mon amour (1959)

Directed by

Alain Resnais

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

France, Japan

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 934 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A French actress and a Japanese architect meet in Hiroshima and spend a day and night together. Their intimate conversation reveals their personal histories and the pain of past loves.

meditativemelancholicfragmentedintimatereflectivepoeticnonlinearemotionally intense

What happens

Hiroshima mon amour (French pronunciation: [iʁoʃima mɔ̃n‿amuʁ], lit. Hiroshima, My Love, Japanese: 二十四時間の情事, romanized: Nijūyojikan no jōji, lit. 'Twenty-four hour love affair') is a 1959 romantic drama film directed by French director Alain Resnais and written by French author Marguerite Duras. Resnais' first feature-length work, it was a co-production between France and Japan, and documents a series of intensely personal conversations (or one long conversation) over slightly more than a 24-hour period between an unnamed French actress and a Japanese architect. The film is notable for Resnais' innovative use of brief flashbacks to suggest flashes of memory, which create a nonlinear storyline. Along with films such as Breathless (1960) and The 400 Blows (1959), Hiroshima mon amour brought international attention to the new movement in French cinema and is widely considered to be one of the most influential films of the French New Wave. In particular, it was a major catalyst for Left Bank Cinema. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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