Directed by Alain Resnais

After being commissioned to create a short documentary centering on the atomic bomb, director Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad, Night and Fog) enlisted novelist Marguerite Duras to craft a beautiful and experimental screenplay which would become Hiroshima mon amour.

One of the most influential films of all time, as well as a defining film of the French New Wave, Hiroshima mon amour traces the brief but deeply intimate affair between a French actress and a Japanese architect in postwar Hiroshima. Resnais’s innovative approach to film structure, including recurring integrated flashbacks, and Duras’s Oscar-nominated poetic-prose script, would go on to cement Hiroshima as a pinnacle of French and international cinema. 1959, France, DCP, in French and Japanese with English subtitles, 90 minutes. Recommended for 13+.

Introduced by Wendy Yoder, Associate Professor of French, UofL.

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