View Item - FM-H035-1959

Language:
French
Category:
Drama
Duration:
90 minutes
Catalog Num:
FM-H035-1959
Title:
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Item Type:
Video
Medium:
DVD
Program:
F&MS

Reserved:
No
Status:
Available

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 Okado) 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 pas and present, personal pain and public anguish, in this moody masterwork.

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