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Hiroshima mon amour
Uniform Title
Hiroshima mon amour (Motion picture)
Title
Hiroshima mon amour / Janus Films ; Argos Films, Como Films, Daiei Motion Picture Co Ltd et Pathe Overseas Productions presentent ; réalisation, Alain Resnais ; scenario et dialoques, Marguerite Duras.
ISBN
9781681430201
1681430207
Edition
DVD special edition.
Publication
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Medium
DVD video 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Full screen (1.37:1).
Originally released as a motion picture in 1959; restored by Argos Films in 2013.
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.
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.
French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Summary
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.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French
Added to Catalog
May 03, 2018
Series
The Criterion collection ; 196
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.
Cast
Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson.
System details note
DVD; NTSC; region 1; Dolby digital 1.0.
Videorecording number
CC2508DDVD The Criterion Collection
CC2508D The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Romance films
Feature films.
Feature films - France.
Feature films - Japan.
Romance films.
Romance films - France.
Romance films - Japan.
Fiction films.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures - France.
Motion pictures - Japan.
French language films.
Foreign films - France.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Foreign films - France.
Also listed under
Janus Films, production company.
Argos Films, production company.
Como Films, production company.
Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha (1945-1971), production company.
Pathe Overseas Productions, production company.
Cahiers du cinéma (Firm)
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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