Alain Resnais: 60 years of sensational cerebral film-making | Film | theguardian.com

 

"His Hiroshima Mon Amour, a long and intensely realised “conversation” between two lovers, French and Japanese, played by Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada, which debate the meaning of memory, perception and existence — after a section of the film which recounted in documentary style, the effects of the Hiroshima bomb. The provocative cymbal-clash of history and personal narrative, the refusal to offer a clear narrative meaning, the infusion of geo-political dismay and intense eroticism — it was all sensationally provocative." 

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Alain Resnais: 60 years of sensational cerebral film-making | Film | theguardian.com