Rent Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
3.7 of 5 from 165 ratings
1h 27min
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- Synopsis:
- A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, passionate affair in post war Hiroshima. Their deeply intense connection brings out scarred but fading memories of love and suffering, which Resnais communicates with the use of flashback techniques innovative to the time.
- Actors:
- Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson, Moira Lister
- Directors:
- Alain Resnais
- Producers:
- Anatole Dauman, Samy Halfon
- Writers:
- Marguerite Duras
- Aka:
- Hiroshima, My Love
- Studio:
- StudioCanal
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Romance
- Collections:
- A Brief History of the Tradition of Quality, Female Filmmakers Who Changed French Cinema, Films by Genre, The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to François Truffaut, Top 10 Films By Year, Top 10 Films of 1959
- Countries:
- France
- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 03/01/2022
- Run Time:
- 90 minutes
- Languages:
- French LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie
- Interviews with director Alain Resnais from 1961 and 1980
- Interviews with actor Emmanuelle Riva from 1959 and 2003
- Interview with film scholar Frangois Thomas, author of L'atelier d'Alain Resnais, from 2015
- Interview with music scholar Tim Page about the films score, from 2015
- Revoir "Hiroshima"..., a 2013 program about the film's restoration
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Reviews (1) of Hiroshima Mon Amour
Memory film. - Hiroshima Mon Amour review by Steve
Intelligent and intense allegory about the impact on history of the discharging of atomic bombs in Japan. Quite a sensual and poetic film.
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