Hiroshima mon amour

Dominic Simard-Jean

The opening 15 minutes are some of the most overwhelming and striking movements of films ever assembled together. The line between fiction and reality is blurred and bombs and body collide. I am absolutely in love with Emmanuelle Riva.

Checkpoint Charlie

I'm suddenly reminded, following this immensely devastating film, why I bother with films in the first place.

Duncan Gray

I wrote a paper on this in film school, when it seemed like an academic exercise just to watch, never mind actively parse. This is why you should revisit your curriculum, kids—12 years later I can feel it. One of the most passionate movies about political turmoil, the pain & intimacy of memory, and the inability for people from separate cultures to truly come together, even in a rapidly internationalizing world.

Scottie Ferguson

As someone who's counted Marienbad as a top ten favorite for years, I can't believe it took me so long to see this one. Hits many similar thematic notes as that masterpiece, and shares with it, I suspect, a tendency to richly reward repeat viewings.

Huey McEvoy

The intensity of Emmanuelle Riva's screen burn from cool, carefree Gallic siren to cropheaded, castigated, neutured prisoner is astonishing, absolutely on a par with Resnais' bold ambition to draw parallels between war and love. Painfully romantic and utterly devastating, with a fantastic score by Georges Delerue.

Michael H. CLAES

Entre AMOUR (HANEKE) et HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (RENAIS), curieusement Emmanuelle RIVA n'a pas vraiment changé ... ====== Between LOVE (HANEKE) and HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (RESNAIS) curiously Emmanuelle RIVA has not really changed ...

msmichel

Essential cinema. Classic French cinema perfectly constructed by director Alain Resnais with an enthralling script by Marguerite Duras which transfixes the viewer. Casting is exceptional especially Emmanuelle Riva whose intensity burns the image. Cinematography by Vierny and Takahashi is very impressive as is production design, music and costume design. But in the end its the script that makes this essential.

Zachary T.

Laments the betrayal of memory; its fragility, incompleteness and incapability to honour what and who we've loved and lost in appropriate detail. Trapped within the surreal and fragmented narrative are perfectly juxtaposed feelings of emotional exhaustion and lasting guilt. What is the cost of moving on?