

France • French • 1959 • 1h 32m
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 (“Hiroshima My Love”) is a moody masterwork that delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish.

Alain Resnais, 1961

Alain Resnais, 1980

Ari Aster on HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR

Emmanuelle Riva on HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR 1

Emmanuelle Riva on HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR 2

François Thomas on HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR

Memory and Meaning: The Music of HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR

Revoir HIROSHIMA . . .

Mutations of Memory: Editing in HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR

Marvel mon amour
via Criterion Collection
French New Wave
Position 5