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06/24/06
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
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Reviews Counted: 19 Fresh: 18 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 8.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Bernard Fresson
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05/24/03
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It's one of the landmark French New Wave films that featured innovative flashback techniques.
08/07/07
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06/23/07
Resnais' audacious work in narrative and temporal structure, with screenplay from Duras, the film has endured due to its lyrical quality in depicting a love affair between a French actress and a Japanese architect in post WWII; a must-see for film lovers
03/02/07
Hiroshima's imagery and music give it a feel at once modern and timeless, this is a beautiful piece of work.
08/26/06
As a milestone of film, Hiroshima, Mon Amour cannot be overestimated.
03/22/06
A somewhat stilted but still emotionally and intellectually engaging glimpse at profound and challenging questions of the role of memory in our sense of identity.
10/25/03
Although it presents, on occasion, a baffling repetition of words and ideas, much like vaguely recurring dreams, it, nevertheless, leaves the impression of a careful coalescence of art and craftsmanship.
05/20/03
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