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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Other Authors: Resnais, Alain
Institution:Open Society Archives at Central European University
Language:Japanese
French
Published: France 1959
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:01fdee20-d95f-4651-ba9b-0b9070e03e89
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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.
Published:1959