Hiroshima Mon Amour (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD)
From the measureless depths of a woman's emotions...
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 14, 2015
- Originally Released: 1959
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Emmanuelle Riva & Eiji Okada | |
Performer: | Bernard Fresson | |
Directed by | Alain Resnais | |
Screenwriting by | Marguerite Duras | |
Composition by | Georges Delerue & Giovanni Fusco | |
Produced by | Anatole Dauman & Samy Halfon |
Entertainment Reviews:
That rare movie in which present and past meld in every frame to convey a sense of time obliterated, or a dream having a nightmare.
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Los Angeles Times
It employs a foredoomed romance between a French actress and a Japanese architect as a narrative thread that binds together a series of haunting reflections about life in the Atomic Age.
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Maclean's Magazine
[B]eautiful...
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[I]t becomes that rare movie in which present and past meld in every frame to convey a sense of time obliterated, or a dream having a nightmare.
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/4 --
"Hiroshima Mon Amour" will always be too studied a masterwork for some tastes. But Riva's performance, chief among its triumphs, remains electrifying.
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Chicago Tribune
If so many films were not hybrids -half plays or half novels, half polemical or half literary-1 needn't say what it seems almost absurd to say, that Hiroshima Mon Amour is cinematic first, last and always.
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The Spectator
The film, a visual discovery that renewed the stagnation of so many directors of the time, was also about that relationship, combining it in a masterly way with political reflection, so that one could not exist without the other. [Full review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Product Description:
In Alain Resnais's artistic adaptation of Margueurite Duras's HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR, a French actress working in Japan meets a Japanese architect with whom she has an affair. Their relationship consists largely of conversations about the bombing at Hiroshima, the horrors that he and his family endured, and her perception of it back home in occupied France. With a camera that operates sometimes like a slide show, other times like a space vessel--switching easily in and out of flashbacks and gently blending footage of both Japan and France--the story unfolds more like a collection of memories than a chronological narrative. Perhaps the most dramatic scene is the unforgettable opener: An impeccably beautiful close-up in black and white depicts lovers writhing first in the ash of bomb fallout, which is washed away by rain, then, as their skin dries, they begin to perspire from making love. She--the nameless female lead (Emmanuele Riva)--remembers everything of the war. But He--the nameless male lead (Eiji Okada)--challenges her to determine if what she remembers is real or just a projection. As with most Marquerite Duras novels, it's hard to determine exactly what happened and what didn't. HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR is truly like a poem, using the emotional words of Duras to propel Resnais's ultrapowerful images.
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- Sales Rank: 81,143
- UPC: 715515151610
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