Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alan Resnais, 1959)
I've been interested by the work of Alan Resnais for the past year and Hiroshima, Mon Amour just fueled that interest.
The beggining is even heavier than Resnais' Night and Fog (if that's even possible) and when I was thinking I wouldn't survive such a heavy theme, the movie took a different path and ended being about a romance with an atomic disaster as background!
It's an incredibly anti-war movie filled with stunning photography, music and poetry. Using the romantic couple, Resnais deals with war, human tragedy and the ability that we, humans, have to overcome hardship without really overcoming it. Hiroshima was destroyed and rebuilt but some wounds will never disappear, just like they went apart trying to convince themselves it wasn't a big deal, but the love between them was to strong for that to happen.
Art made into film. As simple as that.
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