Hiroshima mon amour (1959)

Directors

Alain Resnais

Cast

Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson

The story

A series of closeups of the backs and arms of a man and woman embracing, amidst falling ash and then covered in sweat. In voice-over, the woman recounts the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima that she has seen on her trip to the city, while newsreel and fictional footage of victims, protests, war memorials, and the streets and buildings of modern Hiroshima are shown. A voice-over from the man repeatedly states that the woman has not seen anything, nor does she know what it is to forget.

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