Hiroshima mon amour, Alain Resnais

Introduction to the movie by Beñat Sarasola in Basque.

A film which had significant impact and a strong influence on later European cinema. Debut in the field of fiction feature films by the prestigious Alain Resnais (Muriel, Night and Fog), after a previous period as a documentary filmmaker. The screenplay, by the famous novelist Marguerite Duras, was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Screenplay category, and the film was part of the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is excellently acted by Oscar nominee Emmanuelle Riva (Amour) in her first leading role. An indispensable film in the history of cinema.

Hiroshima mon amour, Alain Resnais, France, 1959, 90 min. Film in original version, with subtitles in Basque.

After shooting a film in Hiroshima, a young French actress spends her last night in a hotel in the company of a Japanese man. They are strangers, but what could be a fleeting one-night stand turns into an intense love affair that makes her recall an impossible love lived out in Nevers (France) a few years earlier. The love affair then becomes an introspective process through which the woman reconstructs her past and reveals her innermost feelings to her partner.