Directed by Alain Resnais • 1959 • France, Japan
A cornerstone of the French New Wave, the first feature from Alain Resnais is one of the most influential films of all time. A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering. With an innovative flashback structure and an Academy Award-nominated screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima mon amour is a moody masterwork that delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish.
Recorded in 2002, this audio commentary features film historian Peter Cowie.
In the first of these two interviews with Alain Resnais, excerpted from a 1961 episode of the French television show “Cinépanorama,” the director talks with François Chalais about his early career. In the second, excerpted from a 1980 broadcast of the French radio program “Le cinéma des cinéastes...
In the first of these two interviews with Alain Resnais, excerpted from a 1961 episode of the French television show “Cinépanorama,” the director talks with François Chalais about his early career. In the second, excerpted from a 1980 broadcast of the French radio program “Le cinéma des cinéastes...
