Film Details

The first feature by the late Alain Resnais was written by Marguerite Duras and is one of the key works of modernist cinema. A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva of Amour) who’s in Hiroshima to shoot a pacifist movie has an affair with a Japanese architect. Their relationship dredges up sorrowful, guilt-ridden wartime memories for both of them. This groundbreaking film fractures chronology into a plaintive mosaic of words, images, music, and silences, but remains a moving love story. Long out of release in the U.S., it has now been fully restored and reissued.