Category: Great French Directors

• Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959) “…Nevers Mon Amour”

  

  Hiroshima Mon Amour, directed by Alain Resnais, opens with a close-up of an arm and body amorously entangled. They are in the dark, their bodies are joined and small particles, resembling ashes or sand (as the sands of time), are falling and covering them. They are caressing and soon begin to glow, as they are…

  Vigour of Film Lines

  March 20, 2018

  Alan Resnais, European cinema, French cinema

  Art, Atomic Bombing, Cultural Trauma, Destructive Love, Forgetting, France, Hiroshima, Klimt, Love, Second World War, Trauma