Sunday, November 16, 2 :00 pm in Greene Hall, room 239
Hiroshima mon amour (1959, 90 minutes, French with English subtitles)
A cornerstone film of the French New Wave, Alain Resnais’s 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 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.(Criterion Collection) Presented by Prof. Judy Kem, Dept. of Romance Languages