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Hiroshima mon amour

Screening on Film
Directed by Alain Resnais.
With Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Bernard Fresson.
France/Japan, 1959, 35mm, black & white, 91 min.
French with English subtitles.

Resnais’s first feature film is greatly indebted to Marguerite Duras’s screenplay and is considered one of the finest films of the early French New Wave. Using a radically novel approach to expressing temporality through associative cuts that bridge the past and the present, Resnais presents the subjective point of view of a French woman who, haunted by her past during the war and filming an historical recreation of the atomic blast in Hiroshima, falls in love with a Japanese man.

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