Hiroshima Mon Amour - English subtitled
Classic by Alain Resnais about a French actress who gets into a brief relationship with a Japanese architect in Hiroshima, based on a screenplay by Marguerite Duras.
Lumière Classics
A cornerstone of the French New Wave, the first feature film from Alain Resnais is one of the most influential films of all time. A French actress and a Japanese architect engage in a brief, intense affair in post-war Hiroshima, their consuming mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering. With an innovative flashback structure and an Academy Award-nominated screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour is a moody masterpiece that delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish.
Alain Resnais, France, Japan, 1959, 90 min. French, Japanese & English spoken, English subtitles.
With Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson.