But Alain Resnais’ groundbreaking 1959 French New Wave film “Hiroshima Mon Amour” is not a love story. It’s a war film. Filmed mostly in Hiroshima about 13 years after the atomic bomb was ...

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959). On its simplest level, the film is about the affair between a French actress on location and a Japanese architect, played out against the background of Hiroshima.

Has there ever been a more progressive film than Alain Resnais’ 1959 landmark “Hiroshima Mon Amour”? Aesthetically, politically, socially — every inch of it is forward thinking ...

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 ...

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. The 1959 fiction film was ...

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. In homage ...

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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 ...

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 particular, the 1959 mindset of ...

Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the ...

Click here to see the full list. Hiroshima's mushroom cloud has probably inspired more glib statements and images than any other 20th century phenomenon. So it's particularly refreshing to find ...