Malvern French Film Centre
English title: Hiroshima My Love
Director: Alain Resnais
Certificate: 12
New Wave Classic
1959
Running time: 1hr 31mins
French with English subtitles
In postwar Hiroshima, Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) and French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) begin a brief soul-searching affair. Through their conversations, director Alain Resnais and screenwriter Marguerite Duras unravel how they have been scarred by the Second World War, in a depiction of two people who cannot extricate themselves from history, living in a city forever altered by the bombing of 1945.
