Alain Resnais does not neglect the blast of Hiroshima by wrapping it with a simple love-affair...
His film is puzzling, but, at the same time, a compromise, a promise, a pledge to human society... It is too daring by its conventional moral standards, distinguished in the way it was done, written, made and executed...
"Hiroshima, Mon Amour" is about the fortitude of man, with its mental and physical power... Alain Resnais and his writer-collaborator Marguerite Duras combined a love story with an anti-bomb story... They carry out the horror of Hiroshima and the sorrow of a lost first love...
Hiroshima is a tragedy that shocks us, while the lyrical scenes of the the couple's love affair in Nevers makes us cry...
The story of Nevers does not trivialize the story of Hiroshima... We gasp at the tragedy of Hiroshima as we weep over the tragedy at Nevers... We contemplate a cosmic and a personal problem at the same time.
"Hiroshima, Mon Amour" is a new kind of film... It has great technical ability, illustrating hypothesis plus fact...
There is a close-up of Emmanuelle Riva , who has just glanced at Eiji Okada, asleep... Suddenly there is a brief flash-cut of the body of a wounded young man lying in approximately the same position in another place...
Resnais' camera moves like a stream from the present to the past and back to the present... It cuts back to Riva's face, and then back to Okada asleep, and in that split second the technique of the subliminal flash cut, used to describe a character's state of mind, is born...
This cut is the key to the film, for it is the man whom she calls 'Hiroshima' who reminds her of her lover at Nevers...
It is the tragedy of his race that reminds her of the small tragedy of her life...
This identification is carried through in the most neurotic moments of her recitative, when she looks at the Japanese and speaks to him as if he were her German lover of fourteen years before...
"Hiroshima, Mon Amour" reflects image and sound, past and present; the actual and the remembered; the personal and the cosmic; a man and a woman; concern for the individual and concern for mankind...
His film is puzzling, but, at the same time, a compromise, a promise, a pledge to human society... It is too daring by its conventional moral standards, distinguished in the way it was done, written, made and executed...
"Hiroshima, Mon Amour" is about the fortitude of man, with its mental and physical power... Alain Resnais and his writer-collaborator Marguerite Duras combined a love story with an anti-bomb story... They carry out the horror of Hiroshima and the sorrow of a lost first love...
Hiroshima is a tragedy that shocks us, while the lyrical scenes of the the couple's love affair in Nevers makes us cry...
The story of Nevers does not trivialize the story of Hiroshima... We gasp at the tragedy of Hiroshima as we weep over the tragedy at Nevers... We contemplate a cosmic and a personal problem at the same time.
"Hiroshima, Mon Amour" is a new kind of film... It has great technical ability, illustrating hypothesis plus fact...
There is a close-up of Emmanuelle Riva , who has just glanced at Eiji Okada, asleep... Suddenly there is a brief flash-cut of the body of a wounded young man lying in approximately the same position in another place...
Resnais' camera moves like a stream from the present to the past and back to the present... It cuts back to Riva's face, and then back to Okada asleep, and in that split second the technique of the subliminal flash cut, used to describe a character's state of mind, is born...
This cut is the key to the film, for it is the man whom she calls 'Hiroshima' who reminds her of her lover at Nevers...
It is the tragedy of his race that reminds her of the small tragedy of her life...
This identification is carried through in the most neurotic moments of her recitative, when she looks at the Japanese and speaks to him as if he were her German lover of fourteen years before...
"Hiroshima, Mon Amour" reflects image and sound, past and present; the actual and the remembered; the personal and the cosmic; a man and a woman; concern for the individual and concern for mankind...