Film Screening:

Hiroshima Mon Amour

(Alain Resnais, 1959, 90 min, France/Japan/Mexico, in English, French, and Japanese w/ English subtitles, B&W, Blu-Ray) 

-- Introduced by Christina Rudosky (French Studies, University of Colorado Boulder); Q&A to follow!

A cornerstone of French New Wave cinema, Alain Resnais' first feature is one of the most influential films of all time. A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering. Utilizing an innovative flashback structure and an Academy Award-nominated screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras, Resnais delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish, in this moody masterwork.

"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 

-- Winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film, in 1960!

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The Center for French and Francophone Studies, the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI) and the Department of Romance Studies.