Tuesday, March 29, 11:45am
Student Union Movie Theater, UNC Charlotte Main Campus
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Director Alain Resnais
France, Japan, Mexico, 1959, 90 min
French, English, Japanese with English subtitles
Introduction and discussion by William S Davis, Lecturer of Film Studies, UNC Charlotte, CEO of Small Creatures LLC (a Charlotte-based film production company), Program Director of the Joedance Film Festival
Presented as part of The Tournées Festival, which was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the US, the Centre National de la Cinématographie et de l’Image Animée, and the Franco-American Cultural Fund.
Additional sponsors are the Alliance Française de Charlotte and the UNC Charlotte French Club.
One of the most influential movies ever made, Hiroshima mon amour would not only shape the Nouvelle Vague but also liberate filmmakers from linear storytelling. It centers around the time-toggling conversations of two characters, identified only as She (Emmanuelle Riva) and He (Eiji Okada). She is a French actress who has gone to Hiroshima to take part in a film about peace; He is her married lover, a Japanese architect who had served during World War II—and whose family was in Hiroshima the day the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city. While the two reflect on the horrors of wartime—She lived through the Nazi occupation of France—they begin to debate the very unreliability of memory.
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Reviews:
“Among the many masterpieces of the French New Wave, Resnais’s 1959 memory
drama is easily the most passionate: a cross-cultural romance tinged by shame and
regret.” —Time Out New York
Social Media Links: Hiroshima Mon Amour on YouTube
