Hiroshima mon amour
film by Resnais [1959]
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contribution by Duras
- In Marguerite Duras
…Alain Resnais’s critically acclaimed film Hiroshima mon amour, about a brief love affair in postwar Hiroshima between a Japanese businessman and a French actress. She directed as well as wrote the 1975 film adaptation of her play India Song, which offers a static, moody portrayal of the wife of the…
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discussed in biography
- In Alain Resnais
With Hiroshima mon amour, his first feature-length motion picture, Resnais attained preeminence among the innovative New Wave directors, particularly for the finesse with which he combined traditional form and radical content. In his preference for elaborate rehearsals of his actors, Resnais belongs to the classical cinema;…
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