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Screen/Society--French & Francophone Film Festival--"Hiroshima Mon Amour"

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Tuesday, October 06, 2015
7:00 pm - 8:40 pm
Introduced by Christina Rudosky (French Studies, University of Colorado Boulder); Q&A to follow!
French & Francophone Film Festival

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) / 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! / Trailer: https://youtu.be/CLts830aLlw

Contact: Hank Okazaki