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Hiroshima Mon Amour

Original title: Hiroshima mon amour
  • 19591959
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
32K
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Eiji Okada and Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
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  • Drama
  • Romance
A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
32K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Alain Resnais
  • Writer
    • Marguerite Duras(dialogue)
  • Stars
    • Emmanuelle Riva
    • Eiji Okada
    • Stella Dassas
Top credits
  • Director
    • Alain Resnais
  • Writer
    • Marguerite Duras(dialogue)
  • Stars
    • Emmanuelle Riva
    • Eiji Okada
    • Stella Dassas
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 126User reviews
    • 134Critic reviews
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 7 wins & 10 nominations total

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    Eiji Okada and Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
    Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
    Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
    Eiji Okada and Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
    Eiji Okada and Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
    Eiji Okada and Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
    Eiji Okada and Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
    Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
    Eiji Okada and Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
    Eiji Okada and Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
    Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
    Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

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    Emmanuelle Riva
    Emmanuelle Riva
    • Elleas Elle
    • (as Emmanuele Riva)
    Eiji Okada
    Eiji Okada
    • Luias Lui
    Stella Dassas
    • Motheras Mother
    Pierre Barbaud
    • Fatheras Father
    Bernard Fresson
    Bernard Fresson
    • German Loveras German Lover
    Moira Lister
    Moira Lister
    • (Dubbed Emmanuelle Riva)as (Dubbed Emmanuelle Riva)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Alain Resnais
    • Writer
      • Marguerite Duras(dialogue) (scenario)
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      This film pioneered the use of jump cutting to and from a flashback, and of very brief flashbacks to suggest obtrusive memories.
    • Goofs
      When Elle leaves the hotel to go the set, she is wearing a nurse's uniform with a headscarf and carrying a black handbag. When Lui meets her on the set, she is now wearing a skirt and blouse and still has the headscarf. When they leave the set, the headscarf is left behind. When they get to Lui's house, she now has a white jacket.
    • Quotes

      Lui: Some years from now, when I have forgotten you and other romances like this one have recurred through sheer habit, I will remember you as a symbol of love's forgetfulness. This affair will remind me how horrible forgetting is.

    • Connections
      Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Le contrôle de l'univers (1999)

    User reviews126

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    Top review
    10/10
    A complex view of humans and how they cope when their worlds become tragic
    This film has been compared to "Citizen Kane," not because of the story itself, but the way it is told, and through innovative artistic devices. The screenplay is highly poetic even when describing destruction, death, and madness. Several jump cuts in time occur with voice-over, and, at the beginning, voice-over during a montage of frightening images from the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing and the bodies of the two lovers in bed. The characters represent different cities; the Japanese man, Hiroshima, the French woman, a city in France, Nevers (was this intentional?), but the latter might as well represent any outside nation. While "Hiroshima," even after being destroyed by an "ally" of France, falls in love with her and wants her to stay, despite his claims that she can never know what the bombing was really like, yet leaving this in the past without forgetting, "France" is hung up on a dead Nazi soldier whom she had loved, and became an outcast because of it. What the soldier really seems to represent is not the Nazis, but rather a real, true love that transcended nationalities and associations. France's past is personal and fears forgetting it, while Hiroshima's is communal and, while not wanting to forget, also wants to move ahead. For this reason Hiroshima keeps trying to convince France to stay so that they can be in love, but France is too preoccupied with its own personal ghost that it cannot share, which is why it is a major breakthrough for her when she tells her tragic story for the first time to anyone, Hiroshima. Hiroshima's past tragedy being communal is shared and it wants to share with the rest of the world. France's tragedy is personal and is only beginning to be shared. It takes the entire film before the two characters can get to a beginning of something more than their differences and likenesses of tragedy and loss in the past, and this beginning is who they really are, in the present, two people reborn from these tragedies.
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    • RunPepe
    • Oct 11, 2002

    Details

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    • Release date
      • May 16, 1960 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Japan
    • Languages
      • French
      • Japanese
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Hiroshima, My Love
    • Filming locations
      • Nevers, Nièvre, France
    • Production companies
      • Argos Films
      • Como Films
      • Daiei Studios
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $96,439
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $18,494
      • Oct 19, 2014
    • Gross worldwide
      • $134,584
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 30 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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