Hiroshima Mon Amour

Alain Resnais' acclaimed film Hiroshima Mon Amour was released in 1959, and was called "The Birth of a Nation of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague)" by critic Leonard Maltin, because of its importance to the innovations of the movement. It tells the story of a French woman (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese man (Eiji Okada) who meet and become lovers in post-war Hiroshima.

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Alain Resnais - 1959 - Birth of a Nation - Nouvelle vague - Leonard Maltin - Emmanuelle Riva - Eiji Okada - Hiroshima

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The experiences during the Second World War of both characters is told in flashback form, juggling their horrendous experiences in the past with the current love story between the two protagonists. Director Alain Resnais' bold experiments in using flashback and sequencing was also used in his later masterpiece Last Year at Marienbad. It earned an Oscar nomination for screenwriter Marguerite Duras, as well as a special award at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival (it was excluded from official selection at the festival because of its sensitive subject matter as well as to avoid upsetting the U.S. government).

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Second World War - Flashback - Alain Resnais - Last Year at Marienbad - Marguerite Duras - Cannes Film Festival

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