- Format: PAL
- Subtitles: English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: PG
- Studio: Nouveaux
- DVD Release Date: 28 Feb 2005
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0007IK5UK
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 24,805 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I was gripped,
By Johnz (Lancs, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hiroshima Mon Amour [DVD] (DVD)
In 1959 a French actress, in Hiroshima for an anti-war film, has what she thinks will be a one-night stand with a Japanese man but it leads her into revisiting and re-evaluating the loss she feels from her very first relationship - with a German soldier of the occupying forces in France.
In black and white with an almost noir-ish look, you will love this if development of character interests you. If you want an obvious storyline, you will be disappointed. I was gripped.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Never say Nevers again...,
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This review is from: Hiroshima Mon Amour [DVD] (DVD)
Initially Hiroshima,Mon Amour was commissioned to be a documentary like the 26 that had preceded it,all commissioned,instead it became a work of fiction.This is a complex film exploring themes of time and memory.It's also highly political and literary,based as it is on a script by Maguerite Duras,set in both Japan and France, using both a Japanese actor Eiji Okada and a French actor,Emmanuelle Riva.Set in the present( 1950sJapan),concerns a love affair between 2 unnamed married people,`he' and `she'who meet at various points during the woman's final 24 hours before she returns to France.She is an actor making a film in Hiroshima about peace and he an architect. Within the main love affair is entwined another love affair set in France,in the town of Nevers,towards the end of WWII,told in flashbacks remembered by the woman,however they could be his or hers imaginings or fantasies.
The 2nd love affair is the story of her affair with a young German soldier during the occupation.Their affair is uncovered,he is shot,she publicly humiliated by the townspeople and imprisoned in a cellar by her parents,allowed to leave at the war's end at night.Within the 2 stories is inserted footage of Hiroshima,newsreel taken shortly after the bomb dropped,or artefacts collected from the bombsite on display.Too big for a documentary although it is about Hiroshima,it is not about it in the conventional sense,for that see Black Rain(1989,Kuroi ame),a more conventional film,a family trying to build their lives in the aftermath and the effects of the fallout.Resnais' film is about the universal human experience of suffering,the 2 stories show how memories of our own suffering which cause us pain,allow us to know how it feels when other people suffer.She saw her own suffering multiplied. She is also one of the victims of the fallout,having her own hair cut off,rather than fall out due to radiation.As time passes memories fade,she begins to forget.Nevers merges with Hiroshima,both are condemned to forgetting,in betrayal of the past,in hope of survival of the future. Resnais breaks with the codes of classic Hollywood,using flash-backs,voice-over narration,ellipsis and repetition. We are at a loss to know how the sound and images relate,whether the narration is a fragment of a dialogue spoken in the present,in the past or as part of an interior monologue.We don't know truth from fiction in the voice-over and associated flashbacks and to whom they belong.Resnais only shows the middle of the story,not how they met or how their affair ends.The characters are kept at a distance from us,remain cold and aloof,giving spectators a more Brechtian persective,obscure art film characters,like symbols in a poem on the impermanence of memory,we narrate over and over,trying to elucidate the elusive essence.There are nods to Orphee in the timelessness of time,the descent in a trance-like state of dream.Playing the loop over and over again.
8 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hard to watch,
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This review is from: Hiroshima Mon Amour [DVD] (DVD)
When I was at university, we were required to watch this film three times. The first time, I nearly fainted and had to leave. The second time, I had to leave early. I did not even attempt to watch it a third time. It was incredibly powerful. The images of Hiroshima were horrific.
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