There’s still a lot of talking in “Hiroshima Mon Amour,” but Duras has Her mostly talk around her points, not address them directly. She’s allowed to be unknowable, even to herself.

“Hiroshima Mon Amour” may be a groundbreaking film, but it successfully conveys an emotion that those in 1959 felt loud and clear. G. Allen Johnson is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.

His 1959 film Hiroshima Mon Amour is a staple of World War II cinema and an incredibly poignant investigation into not only one of cinema's most popular setpieces but one of the most important ...

The first, and most obvious, is, well, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Resnais’s first feature, directed after he made a decade’s worth of innovative non-fiction short films.

Director: Alain ResnaisThis film ranked #40 in Time Out's list of the 100 greatest French films. Click here to see the full list. Hiroshima's mushroom clo ...

Adapted from my 2006 review: To appreciate the fuss and fury that greeted Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima, Mon Amour on its first appearance, it’s necessary to get into a kind of 1959 mindset. In ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. To appreciate the fuss and fury that greeted Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima, Mon Amour on its first appearance, it’s necessary ...

The title, I Have Been to Hiroshima Mon Amour, appropriates the title of a 1959 Alain Resnais film notable for its use of flashbacks, reflecting the narrative leaps of the play itself.

When Alain Resnais’ “Hiroshima Mon Amour” came out in 1959, the key players in the French New Wave — along with a lot of other admirers, in many countries — considered it a landmark in ...

The reputation of Alain Resnais' 1959 "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" as a demanding, stringent, capital-i-Important film precedes it, but the action that unfolds over its 90 minutes is fairly simple.

Nearly as innovative and imaginative today as it must have been in 1959, “Hiroshima Mon Amour” is both a classic film and a truly modern one. It is a stunning portrayal of love and loss within ...