Hiroshima Mon Amour

Alain Resnais19591h 30mClassic, Romance, Drama

Why we chose it

Alain Resnais directed and the novelist Marguerite Duras wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for this love story, which broke new ground in cinema with history looming behind it. In Hiroshima, after the bomb, two lovers in a hotel room tell each other things that are never said out loud.

Synopsis

A French actress has come to Hiroshima to make a film about peace. In a café she meets a Japanese architect who lost his whole family when the bomb fell, and she spends her last night before going back to Paris with him. She tells him what she saw in the museum and the hospital, and all he says, again and again, is that she saw nothing. Over tea the next morning, she begins to talk about a German soldier in Nevers.

Information

Director
Cast
Also known as
Hiroshima mon amour
Production year
1959
Decade
1950s
Duration
1h 30m
Festivals & Awards
Language
French, Japanese, English
Country
France, Japan
Subtitles
Polish
Age rating
12+

Oscars

Nominated for Best Original Screenplay

1961

Cannes Film Festival

FIPRESCI Prize

1959

BAFTA

Nominated for Best Film

1961

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