Tag Archives: Hiroshima Mon Amour Review

March 01

R.I.P. Alain Resnais

Alain Resnais died, aged ninety-one, leaving the world a sadder place for the knowing we will never see another one of his films. He has made two of my personal favorite movies that fall in my “top ten” (if such a thing can possibly exist) and they are Last Year At Marienbad and Hiroshima Mon […]

February 16

Hiroshima Mon Amour – Resnais and Duras and the tragedy of memory. (Film review)

How does one speak about a project that both Marguerite Duras and Alain Resnais called ‘impossible’? I’ve been thinking for days how to talk about Hiroshima Mon Amour and I still can’t think about what to say. It was intended originally as another documentary like Night and Fog, only this time about the horrors of […]