| Record Number |
766726 |
| Title |
Hiroshima mon amour : Hiroshima my love [videorecording]. |
| Publisher/Date |
Australia Distributed by Umbrella Entertainment, [2008] |
| ©1959 |
| Pagination etc. |
1 DVD-video (86 min.) : sound, black & white ; 12 cm. |
| Series |
World classics |
| Contents note |
Catalogued from container. |
| Umbrella Entertainment : DAVID3588. |
| Originally produced as a motion picture in 1959. |
| DVD Extras: A Brilliant career - the Films of Alain Resnais (50 min) - A discussion with Peter Hourigan, film tutor CAE Melbourne and writer for Senses of Cinema. |
| Creation Note |
Directed by Alain Resnais ; screenplay by Marguerite Duras ; music by Giovanni Fusco, Georges Delerue ; cinematography by Sacha Vierny, Michio Takahashi. |
| Performer note |
Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Bernard Fresson, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud. |
| Summary Note |
One of the most influential films of all time, Alain Resnais' first feature is a beautifully realised parable of love and war set in bomb-ravaged Japan. Following Night and Fog, his devastating chronicle of the Nazi concentration camps, Resnais was asked to make a film about the atomic bomb, and responded with this moody masterwork, a love story in which a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) exorcise their memories of war during a torrid affair amid the ruins of Hiroshima. Utilizing an innovative flashback structure and Academy Award-nominated screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras, Resnais delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish, in a film that defined the French New Wave. |
| Target audience note |
Rated PG. |
| Language note |
In French with English subtitles. |
| Subject |
Man-woman relationships -- Drama |
| World war, 1939-1945 -- Drama |
| Atomic bom -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi -- Blast effect |
| Memory -- Drama |
| Foreign language films |
| War films. |
| Feature films. |
| Fiction films. |
| Added Author |
Riva, Emmanuelle, 1927- actor. |
| Okada, Eiji, 1920-1995 actor. |
| Dassas, Stella actor. |
| Barbaud, Pierre actor. |
| Corporate Author |
Argos Films |
| World Movies Channel (Firm) |
| Added title |
Hiroshima mon amour (Motion picture : 1959) |
| Shelf Location |
DVD F HIRO |
