Hiroshima mon amour

Hiroshima mon amour

DVD - 2015

Set in 1959, a French actress and a Japanese architect engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering.

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Subjects
Man-woman relationships > Drama.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > Drama.
Feature films.
Romance films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Feature films
Romance films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection c2015.
Language
French
English
Corporate Authors
Janus Films, Argos Films, Como Films, Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha (1945-1971), Pathe Overseas Productions
Corporate Authors
Janus Films (production company), Argos Films, Como Films, Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha (1945-1971), Pathe Overseas Productions
Other Authors
Alain Resnais, 1922-2014 (film director), Marguerite Duras (screenwriter), Anatole Dauman, 1925-1998 (film producer), Emmanuèle Riva (actor), Eiji Okada, 1920-1995, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson, 1931-2002
Edition
DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen
Item Description
Full screen (1.37:1).
Originally released as a motion picture in 1959; restored by Argos Films in 2013.
Special features: Audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie (2002); Alain Resnais (interviews with director Alain Resnais from 1961 and 1980); Emmanuelle Riva (interviews with actor Emmanuelle Riva from 1959 and 2003); François Thomas on Hiroshima mon amour (new interview with film scholar François Thomas); Memory and meaning: the music of "Hiroshima mon amour" (new interview with music scholar Tim Page about the film's score); Revoir "Hiroshima" ... (a 2013 program about the film's restoration).
Physical Description
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
1 booklet (27 pages) illustrations ; 19 cm
Format
DVD; NTSC; region 1; Dolby digital 1.0.
Production Credits
Directors of photography, Sacha Vierny, Takahashi Michio ; music, Georges Delerue, Giovanni Fusco ; editors, Henri Colpi, Jasmine Chasney, Anne Sarraute ; production designers, Esaka, Mayo, Pétri ; costume designer, Gerard Collery.
ISBN
9781681430201
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

A passing affair between a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) and a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) in postwar Hiroshima plays out in dreamlike fashion as the tormented woman gradually reveals a painful incident from her past. Exquisitely scripted by Margaret Duras and mesmerizingly directed by Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad), this exemplary French New Wave classic offers a haunting meditation on memory and loss. Replete with running commentary, director and lead actress interviews, and more, this newly restored reissue is a seminal film. [See Trailers, LJ 6/1/15] © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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