France Emmanuel Riva d/ Alain Resnais
One of the best of the New Wave films that came out of France. An actress doing a shoot in H in 1959 has an affair with a Japanese man and processes the painful and humiliating end of her affair with a German soldier in 1945.
Moderately stylized with many well-executed close-ups and fine location work. The explicit evocation of the horror of Hiroshima jolts the audience and places the characters in the context of universal trauma.
The film was rich in themes...war, A-bombs, collaborations, adultery, regret, recovery, forgetting...an intellectual's grab bag of then-contemporary issues. Resnais went on to a great career which continues to this day. Who can ever forget Marienbad? Providence? My Uncle in America?
A classic.
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