Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

Essential Viewing

France/Japan

Feature Film

Original Title: Hiroshima mon amour

Director: Alain Resnais

Writer: Marguerite Duras

Cinematographers: Takahashi Michio, Sacha Vierny

Composers: Georges Delerue, Giovanni Fusco

Cast: Emmanuelle Riva, Okada Eiji

A married French actress, in Hiroshima making a film about peace, and a married Japanese man share a brief, intense affair, which brings to the fore memories – beautiful, painful, and tragically fading – of her first love, with a young German soldier during the Nazi occupation, in Resnais’s provocative and affecting examination of love, desire, and memory. Iain.Stott