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Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) [The Criterion Collection]

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Date: 19 Jul 2015 15:56:00
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) [The Criterion Collection]

Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
DVDRip | MKV | 640 x 480 | x264 @ 3205 Kbps | 90 min | 2,46 Gb
Audio: French AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps + English Commentary | Subs: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

A cornerstone of the French New Wave, the first feature from Alain Resnais 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 mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering. With an innovative flashback structure and an Academy Award–nominated screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima mon amour is a moody masterwork that delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish.

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As a follow up to his monumental documentary "Nuit et brouillard" (Night and Fog), Resnais continues in his war motif with a chilling and powerful statement on the post-modernist, post-war world. An incarnation of a Marguerite Duras screen-play, "Hiroshima mon amour" depicts the confusion surrounding an eracinated and war-stricken people.

Questioning the possibility of Mimesis–"Tu n'as rien vu à Hiroshima. Rien!" (You saw nothing in Hiroshima. Nothing!)– Resnais rejects the notion of re-creation or imitation, conforming to the philosophies of Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida and thus calling into question his own efforts in "Nuit et brouillard." At the same time, he adheres to the Aristotelian ideal that the purpose of Mimesis is the cathartic effect produced by pity and terror, and not merely the representation.

Appealing also to Freudian psychoanalysis, the characters are forced to re-examine the effects of the pathology in attempt to reconstruct the past and determine the cause. (Notice Resnais' use of lighting in the reconstruction scene.) Subtle clues throughout enable the viewer to piece together the story and perform their own psychoanalysis of the situation. A young woman from Nevers, France vows to "never" return to her hometown and the viewer is left to determine the cause.

In my opinion, one of the top ten films of all time, "Hiroshima mon amour" is a work of art that all lovers of cinema must see. Resnais is a cinematographic genius, and his ambivalent depiction of post-war Japan and France in the characters of "Him" and "Her" make this film a cultural landmark as well as masterpiece of post-war, post-modernist art.
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Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) [The Criterion Collection]
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) [The Criterion Collection]
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) [The Criterion Collection]
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) [The Criterion Collection]
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) [The Criterion Collection]
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) [The Criterion Collection]

Note:
There is a two additional Audiotracks here:
- Audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie
- Isolated music and effects track
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