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Hiroshima mon amour

Movie · 1959 · 90 min

A hushed, hypnotic plunge into memory and grief, where fragments of the past keep surfacing through intimate conversation.

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1959 film by Alain Resnais
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Year
1959
Runtime
90 min
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • memory
  • grief
  • love
  • war
  • guilt
Places
  • big city
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour1
Realism7
Romance7
Tension4
Darkness7
Complexity8
Emotional weight9

Details

Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Alain Resnais
Written by
Marguerite Duras
Starring
Emmanuelle Riva, Bernard Fresson, Eiji Okada, Pierre Barbaud
Music
Georges Delerue
Cinematography
Sacha Vierny, Michio Takahashi
Runtime
90 min
Country
Japan, France
Languages
French

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