Hiroshima Mon Amour (1960)
89%RT Audience Score:
Awards & Nominations: NA
Distinguished by innovative technique and Emmanuelle Riva’s arresting performance, Hiroshima Mon Amour is a poignant love story as well as a thoughtful meditation on international trauma
Hiroshima Mon Amour is a visually stunning and emotionally moving film that explores the themes of war, love, and remembrance. While some may find the characters at the center of the drama less compelling, the film’s use of images and dialogue effectively conveys the sense of time obliterated and the impact of the atomic age. Plus, Emmanuelle Riva’s performance is electrifying and her beauty is truly shocking. Overall, a must-watch for cinephiles who appreciate a cinematic intelligence that can be compared with the likes of Joyce, Picasso, and Berg.
Production Company(ies)
Svensk Filmindustri
Distributor
Reel Media International [us], Criterion Collection
Release Type
Filming Location(s)
Nevers, Nièvre, France
MPAA / Certificate
Not Rated
Year of Release
1960
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Mono
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Aspect ratio:1.37 : 1
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Runtime:1h 32m
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Language(s):French, Japanese, English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): May 16, 1960 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 24, 2003
Genre(s)
Drama
Keyword(s)
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Worldwide gross: $99,632
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $1,133,544
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,568
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 123,614
US/Canada gross: $96,439
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $1,097,217
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,162
US/Canada opening weekend: $18,494
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $210,412
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,650
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): NA
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): NA
Production budget ranking: NA
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
ROI to date (est.): NA
ROI ranking: NA
Rodrigo de la Serna – Alberto Granado
Mercedes Morán – Celia de la Serna
Mia Maestro – Chichina Ferreyra
Jorge Chiarella – Dr. Bresciani
Jean Pierre Noher – Ernesto Guevara Lynch
Director(s)
Alain Resnais
Writer(s)
Marguerite Duras
Producer(s)
Anatole Dauman, Samy Halfon
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
NA
Academy Awards
All Critics (42) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (1)
Resnais’ visual sense is matched only by such masters of images as Orson Welles or Von Sternberg.
July 27, 2021
Jonas Mekas
Village Voice
TOP CRITIC
I was arrested by the way in which the film was shot and what it was saying, but I’ll admit to not caring much about the two people at the center of Resnais’ drama.
July 12, 2021 | Rating: 3/4
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
TOP CRITIC
Exquisitely beautiful and harrowing meditation on war and love.
January 15, 2016 | Rating: 5/5
Kate Muir
Times (UK)
TOP CRITIC
“Hiroshima Mon Amour” will always be too studied a masterwork for some tastes. But Riva’s performance, chief among its triumphs, remains electrifying.
October 30, 2014 | Rating: 4/4
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
TOP CRITIC
That rare movie in which present and past meld in every frame to convey a sense of time obliterated, or a dream having a nightmare.
October 16, 2014
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
TOP CRITIC
The first film to juxtapose disastrous erotic passion with the political disasters of the mid century.
October 14, 2014
Michael Atkinson
Village Voice
TOP CRITIC
The first minutes of this movie are shocking. Emmanuelle Riva knocks us off with her beauty while her character reminds us that we’ll never really know Hiroshima. [Full review in Spanish]
June 22, 2022 | Rating: 8/10
Victor Pineyro
Seventh Art Studio
The makers wanted to tell the story and do, in fact, tell it through images and speech. It would be difficult to imagine a silent Hiroshima. The dialogue is never really explanatory, but rather a key component of the story.
April 5, 2022
Bernard Pingaud
Positif
A profoundly moving narrative which tackles themes such as grief and remembrance.
January 3, 2022
Rob Aldam
Backseat Mafia
A stunning piece of cinema, Hiroshima Mon Amour is also one of Resnais’ most emotionally affecting pieces, for one cannot help but be moved by these lovelorn people, struggling hopelessly against the onslaught of time and the doom of being forgotten.
October 21, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
Nicholas Bell
IONCINEMA.com
It employs a foredoomed romance between a French actress and a Japanese architect as a narrative thread that binds together a series of haunting reflections about life in the Atomic Age.
November 15, 2019
Clyde Gilmour
Maclean’s Magazine
Here — for the first time since Eisenstein — we have a cinematic intelligence so quick, so subtle, so original, so at once passionate and sophisticated that it can be compared with Joyce, with Picasso, with Berg and Bartók and Stravinksy.
July 15, 2019
Dwight MacDonald
Esquire Magazine…
Plot
A French woman and a Japanese man have an affair while she is in Japan making a film about peace and the impact of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, The man, an architect, lost his family in the bombing. She recalls her lover during the war, a 23 year-old German soldier who later died. Despite the time they spend together, her attachment appears minimal and they go forward into the future.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
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