Hiroshima mon Amour
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Special features: audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie ; vintage interviews with director Alain Resnais and actress Emmanuelle Riva ; new video interview with Emmanuelle Riva ; excerpts from Marguerite Duras' screenplay annotations, narrated over clips from the film ; isolated music and effects track ; illustrated booklet, featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones, excerpts from a 1959 "Cahiers du Cinéma" round-table discussion about the film, an essay on composer Giovanni Fusco by Russell Lack, and character portraits by Duras.
Emanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson.
A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
DVD, Region 1 encoding, Doby digital mono ; Full screen.
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
good movie
submitted by codyson159 on July 12, 2011, 1:42pm
i like this movie alot
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SERIES
Classic collection.
Criterion collection
196.
LANGUAGE OPTIONS
French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Criterion Collection, [2003]
Year Published: 2003
Description: 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (29 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0780026934 :
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Resnais, Alain, 1922-
Kamenka, Sacha.
Shirakawa, Takeo.
Halfon, Samy.
Duras, Marguerite.
Riva, Emmanuèle.
Okada, Eiji, 1920-
Dassas, Stella.
Barbaud, Pierre.
Fresson, Bernard, 1933-
Takahashi, Michio.
Vierny, Sacha, 1919-
Delerue, Georges, 1925-
Fusco, Giovanni, 1906-
Collery, Gerard.
Argos Films.
Como Films.
Daiei Motion Picture (Firm)
Pathe Overseas Productions (Firm)
Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
Criterion Collection (Firm)
SUBJECTS
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war -- Drama.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- Drama.
French language materials.
Foreign films -- France.