In Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Director Alain Resnais, with a script by author Marguerite Duras, examines memory, time, love and death in this classic film of the French New Wave. Taking place over the course on one day in the city of Hiroshima, Japan, 14 years after the atom bomb was dropped on the city, the story follows a french woman and a Japanese man as the discuss life, death and love.

Starring Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada as unnamed lovers, the movie was director Alain Resnais first feature length film. Filmed on location in Hiroshima, the memory of the atomic bomb blast is ever present and the memory and the trauma of the war lingers over the city of and the lovers.

Alain Resnais's camera captures the city of Hiroshima, still in a rebuilding phase, just as it begins to spring back to life. It a place where the memory of death is ever present in concrete and abstract ways.
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