Hiroshima Mon Amour

Alain Resnais, 1959

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Drama / History / Romance

Criterion TMDB

Directed by Alain Resnais

Written by Marguerite Duras

Cinematography Michio Takahashi, Sacha Vierny

Edited by Anne Sarraute, Jasmine Chasney, Henri Colpi

Cast Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson

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Kathryn Bigelow director

“All right, Hiroshima Mon Amour. When I was at film school, we must have looked at this many, many times. It’s a very meditative movie about the Second World War and postwar Hiroshima, which, of course, was an inconceivable experience. It’s really amazing.”

Kathryn Bigelow