Resnais’s second feature film is greatly indebted to Marguerite Duras’s screenplay and is considered one of the best films of the early French New Wave. Using a radically different approach to express time difference via associative cuts that bridge the past and the present, Resnais presents the subjective point of view of a French woman, haunted by her past and the war, who falls in love with a Japanese man while filming an historical recreation of the atomic blast in Hiroshima.