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World Cinema - Classic
HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR
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About the DVD
Director: Alain ResnaisFormat: PAL
Language: French, Japanese, English
Region: 4
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Number of Discs: 1
Rating: PG
DVD Release Date: 29/03/2008
Run Time: 96MINS
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Special features
- A Brilliant Career: The films of Alain Resnais - a discussion with Peter Hourigan, film tutor; CAE Melbourne, and writer for Senses of Cinema - 50 mins
- Umbrella Trailers
Synopsis
One of the most influential films of all time, Alain Resnais' first feature is a beautifully realised parable of love and war set in bomb-ravaged Japan. Following Night and Fog, his devastating chronicle of the Nazi concentration camps, Resnais was asked to make a film about the atomic bomb, and responded with this moody masterwork, a love story in which a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) exorcise their memories of war during a torrid affair amid the ruins of Hiroshima.
Utilizing an innovative flashback structure and Academy Award®-nominated screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras, Resnais delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish, in a film that defined the French New Wave.
Utilizing an innovative flashback structure and Academy Award®-nominated screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras, Resnais delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish, in a film that defined the French New Wave.
