Alain Resnais' groundbreaking first feature Hiroshima Mon Amour was a springboard for the French New Wave movement and its influence continues to this day. A nameless French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief passionate affair in post-war Hiroshima. Their deeply intense connection brings out scarred memories of love and suffering which Resnais' communicates with the use of flashback techniques innovative to that time.
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A French actress and a Japanese architect have an affair while the actress is making a movie in Hiroshima. Their pasts are slowly re-traced, revealing that his life was destroyed by the atomic bomb which was dropped on the city, and that she was imprisoned as a wartime collaborator. Alain Resnais' first feature. The screenplay is by Maguerite Duras.
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