REMEMBRANCE OF 'HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR!

Poster of film 'Hiroshima Mon Amour' (1959).

While the news channels raising the possibility of nuclear World War III, there is a need to remember of film 'Hiroshima Mon Amour'! And its director..one of the pioneers of French New Wave..Alain Resnais' 8th death anniversary recently happened!

Tragedy of Hiroshima & Nagasaki showed in this film!

More than seven decades over..such tragedy happened in Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki..during World War II. To pay the cinematic homage to it..in 1959, Alain Resnais made 'Hiroshima Mon Amour'! This was co-produced by French & Japanese companies. Anatole Dauman & Samy Halfon were producers!

Marguerite Donnadieu wrote the screenplay of this docu-drama, which used miniature flashbacks to create a non-linear storyline. In its romantic plot, while making an anti-war film in Hiroshima a French Actress does conversation with her Japanese architect lover and they share their perspectives on war! Pretty French actress Emmanuelle Riva and Japanese actor Eiji Okada did these roles intensely!

Michio Takahashi & Sacha Vierny cinematographed this film with various experiments like extream close-ups of characters and taking  contemporary suggestive shots! Henri Colpi & Anne Sarraute edited this film effectively with merging the flash backs during characters' conversation! Georges Delerue & Giovanni Fusco's music was appropriate to the genre of this film!

'Hiroshima Mon Amour's (1959) filmmaker Alain Resnais!

Surprisingly the film was excluded from that time 'Cannes' official selection, because of its sensitive subject & to avoid upsetting U.S.! But after many years it was shown as part of the classic section at the '66th Cannes Film Festival', 2013. It's the irony!

Actually, this is very important landmark film in the history of world cinema, which gives the strong message against war!

After 60 years, significance of this film is very much there! (I wrote about it earlier!)

Now world leaders, please take care..there should not be Nuclear WW3!

We want peaceful & happy world!!

- Manoj Kulkarni