Hiroshima reduced to rubble following the atomic bomb. September 8, 1945. Credit: AP The march was on the Movietone News and my father, the Rum Jungle personnel manager responsible for keeping the ...

“Hiroshima Mon Amour” – 4 stars. No MPAA rating. Running time: 1:32; in French with English subtitles. Opens: Friday at the Music Box Theatre. [email protected]. @phillipstribune.

To see suffering on the Hiroshima scale meticulously recreated through performance and special effects — would this help us, decades on, to resolve any of these contradictions?

“Hiroshima Mon Amour” turns 55 this year, and its influence is subterranean and vast. It’s one of the first features in what would be dubbed the French New Wave.

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.

Hiroshima Mon Amour. Directed by Bertrand Marcos. Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, through July 7. L’Homme Assis dans le Couloir. Directed by Gabriel Garran. Les Déchargeurs, through July 6.

In “Hiroshima, Mon Amour,” a French actress (played by Emmanuelle Riva—who, now eighty-five, is up for the Oscar for Best Actress this year for her role in Michael Haneke’s “Amour”) ...