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Hiroshima mon amour

1959

Alain Resnais

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

7.4

11,088

Drama. Romance A young French actress is making an anti-war film in the rebuilt Japanese city of Hiroshima, which was devastated in a nuclear bomb blast at the end of the Second World War. Here, she has an affair with a Japanese architect, even though both of them are happily married. The actress admits that she will soon have to fly back home to Paris, but she spends one last night with her lover. At a café, she recounts the story of her first tragic ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Kate Muir The Times	"Exquisitely beautiful and harrowing meditation on war and love."	POS
United States	Village Voice	"Resnais' visual sense is matched only by such masters of images as Orson Welles or Von Sternberg."	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"I was arrested by the way in which the film was shot and what it was saying, but I'll admit to not caring much about the two people at the center of Resnais' drama."	NEU
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"Hiroshima Mon Amour will always be too studied a masterwork for some tastes. But Riva's performance, chief among its triumphs, remains electrifying."	POS
United States	Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"That rare movie in which present and past meld in every frame to convey a sense of time obliterated, or a dream having a nightmare."	POS
United States	Budd Wilkins Slant	"What began as a straightforward documentary about the atom bomb mutated along the way into something richer and stranger."	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Resnais and Duras borrowed the Proustian idea of involuntary association to create what Resnais called `a sort of poem in which the images would act as counterpoint to the text'"	POS

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