Hiroshima Mon Amour - Criterion Collection
by Alain Resnais
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Actor: Bernard Fresson, Eiji Okada, Emmanuelle Riva, Pierre Barbaud, Stella DassasDirector: Alain Resnais
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-06-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
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Movie Review: Sleeping with the Enemy
Summary: 5 Stars
"Hiroshima Mon Amour" is a groundbreaking French New Wave movie. It begins with the French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) passionately making love.... then it cuts to the horrors of the atomic bomb. The viewer goes from the boudoir's pleasures to war's pain. It's a daring,powerful,opening sequence, and probably not something likely to be seen in the movie theater nowadays,let alone an art house one.
"Hiroshima Mon Amour",Alan Resnais' masterpiece, has a non-linear sense of time. The French actress is in Japan in the '60s to make an antiwar film. Though she's married, she carries on a brief,passionate affair with a married Japanese architect. Not only does marriage divide them,but culture and the memories of war. The actress reminisces about her brief affair with a German soldier in Nevers (the name is fitting) during WWII. She is deeply pained and conflicted.
"Hiroshima Mon Amour" is a meditative movie about the nature of forbidden love. While "sleeping with the enemy" is used for titillation in recent films like Paul Verhoeven's "Black Book" and Ang Lee's "Lust Caution",Resnais sees the Frenchwoman's affair as a jumping-off point to look into its deeper implications. It brings a whole new meaning to the '60s motto "make love,not war."
Summary of Hiroshima Mon Amour - Criterion Collection
A cornerstone of French cinema, Alain Resnais' first feature 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 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.An extraordinary and deeply moving film that retains much of its power since its original release in 1959, Alain Resnais's Hiroshima, Mon Amour is the story of a French woman (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese man (Eiji Okada) who become lovers in the city of Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb to end World War?II in the Pacific. Written by Marguerite Duras and juggled, as if by wandering thoughts, in chronology and setting by Resnais, the film reveals the miserable and mortifying experiences of each character during the war and suggests the obvious healing properties of their relationship in the present. An emotional allusion or two can certainly be made with the more recent The English Patient, but nothing can quite prepare one for Resnais's extreme yet intuitively accessible experiments in fusing the past, present, and future into great sweeps of subjectively experienced memory. Yet audiences have never had trouble relating to this bold milestone of the French New Wave, largely because at its heart is a genuinely affecting, soulful love story. --Tom Keogh
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