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 |