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Hiroshima mon amour
Alain Resnais
DVD
1 Disc
SRP: $39.95
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France
1959
91 minutes
Black and White
1.33:1
French
Spine #196
SYNOPSIS: A cornerstone film of the French New Wave, Alain Resnais¡¯ first feature is one of the most influential films of all time. A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering. Utilizing an innovative flashback structure and an Academy Award-nominated? screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras, Resnais delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish, in this moody masterwork.
Cast & CreditsOpen
Cast
Emmanuelle Riva
Eiji Okada
Stella Dassas
Pierre Barbaud
Bernard Fresson
Credits
Director
Alain Resnais
Screenplay
Marguerite Duras
Cinematography
Sacha Vierny and Michio Takahashi
Producer
Anatole Dauman, Samy Halfon, Sacha Kamenka and Takeo Shirakawa
Music
Georges Delerue and Giovanni Fusco
Editing
Henri Colpi and Jasmine Chasney
Disc Features
New high-definition digital transfer
Audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie
Cinepanorama interview with Alain Resnais (1961)
Audio interview with Alain Resnais (1980)
Emmanuelle Riva interviewed by Fran?ois Chalais at Cannes (1959)
Excerpts from Duras¡¯ annotations to the screenplay
Isolated music and effects track
A new essay on composer Giovanni Fusco by Russell Lack
New and improved English subtitle translation
Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
A new essay on the film by Kent Jones
From the CurrentView the Current ?
Film Essays
Hiroshima mon amour: Time Indefinite
By Kent Jones June 23, 2003
¡°I think that in a few years, in ten, twenty, or thirty years, we will know whether Hiroshima mon amour was the most important film since the war, the first Read more ?
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