Hiroshima, Mon Amour
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-n...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Japanese French |
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France
1959
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:01fdee20-d95f-4651-ba9b-0b9070e03e89 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Published: | 1959 |