Hiroshima mon amour
(DVD) 

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Contributors
Resnais, Alain, 1922-2014 film director.
Duras, Marguerite screenwriter.
Kamenka, Sacha, 1910-1970, film producer.
Shirakawa, Takeo, film producer.
Halfon, Samy, film producer.
Published
[Irvington, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2015].
ISBN
9781681430201, 1681430207
Status
On Shelf
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Subjects

LC Subjects
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Foreign films.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

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Published
[Irvington, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2015].
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
French
ISBN
9781681430201, 1681430207
UPC
715515151610

Notes

General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1959; restored by Argos Films in 2013.
General Note
Full screen (1.37:1)
General Note
Special features: Audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie (2002); Alain Resnais (interviews with director Alain Resnais from 1961 and 1980); Emmanuelle Riva (interviews with actor Emmanuelle Riva from 1959 and 2003); François Thomas on Hiroshima mon amour (new interview with film scholar François Thomas); Memory and meaning: the music of "Hiroshima mon amour" (new interview with music scholar Tim Page about the film's score); Revoir "Hiroshima"... (a 2013 program about the film's restoration). Includes a booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones and excerpts from a 1959 Cahiers du cinéma roundtable discussion about the film.
Creation/Production Credits
Directors of photography, Sacha Vierny, Takahashi Michio ; music, Georges Delerue, Giovanni Fusco ; editors, Henri Colpi, Jasmine Chasney, Anne Sarraute ; production designers, Esaka, Mayo, Pétri ; costume designer, Gerard Collery.
Participants/Performers
Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson.
Description
Set in 1959, a French actress and a Japanese architect engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering.
System Details
DVD; NTSC; region 1; 4:3 presentation; Dolby digital 1.0.
Language
French dialogue; optional English subtitles.
Local note
DVD

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Resnais, A., Duras, M., Kamenka, S., Shirakawa, T., Halfon, S., Riva, E., Okada, E., Dassas, S., Barbaud, P., Fresson, B., Vierny, S., Takahashi, M., Delerue, G., Fusco, G., Colpi, H., Chasney, J., Sarraute, A., Esaka, M., Mayo, 1., Petri., Collery, G., Cowie, P., Thomas, F., Page, T., & Jones, K. (2015). Hiroshima mon amour (DVD special edition.). The Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Alain Resnais et al.. 2015. Hiroshima Mon Amour. [Irvington, New York]: The Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Alain Resnais et al.. Hiroshima Mon Amour [Irvington, New York]: The Criterion Collection, 2015.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Resnais, A., Duras, M., Kamenka, S., Shirakawa, T., Halfon, S., Riva, E. and Okada, E. et al (2015). Hiroshima mon amour. DVD special edn. [Irvington, New York]: The Criterion Collection.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Resnais, Alain, et al. Hiroshima Mon Amour DVD special edition., The Criterion Collection, 2015.

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