Hiroshima, mon amour

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Movie
German title Hiroshima, mon amour
Original title Hiroshima mon amour
Country of production France
Japan
original language French
Publishing year 1959
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Alain Resnais
script Marguerite Duras
production Anatole Dauman
Samy Halfon
music Georges Delerue
Giovanni Fusco
camera Michio Takahashi
Sacha Vierny
cut Jasmine Chasney
Henri Colpi
Anne Sarraute
occupation

Hiroshima, mon amour (“Hiroshima, my love” in French , Japanese 二十 四 時間 の 情事 nijūyo jikan no jōji : “A day of love”) is a 1959 film drama by Alain Resnais .

action

A married, nameless French actress is staying in Hiroshima for filming fourteen years after the end of the Second World War . There she met a Japanese architect who is also married. The action begins when the two spend a night of love together in the French woman's hotel room. While she is still in bed, her voice is a voiceover of the documentaries and museums about the atomic bomb she saw and her visit to a hospital. His voice keeps answering: You haven't seen anything in Hiroshima.

The next day, the actress announced to her lover that she would soon be flying back to Paris . He wants to prevent this and visits her on the film set . Together they go to his apartment and sleep together. She then tells of her youth in Nevers and her first great love for a German occupation soldier during the Second World War , which reminds her of her Japanese lover. The two lovers were planning to leave France and get married in Germany. But before that could happen, the soldier was shot by a Resistance member. She was insulted as a collaborator , shaved off her head and locked in a cellar and finally sent to Paris by bike. Once there, she learned from a newspaper that Hiroshima had been destroyed by the atomic bomb.

So far, the actress had not told anyone this story, which still preoccupies her. The Japanese tells her to stay with him. However, she realizes that her love has no future and after much deliberation decides to return to her family. He is upset and says: I would have preferred you died in Nevers. The actress replies: I would prefer it too. She goes back to her hotel room; a short time later, the Japanese is at her door. The actress looks him in the eye and says: Hiroshima, that's you. He replies: And you are Nevers. Nevers in France.

background

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Hiroshima, mon amour was the first feature film by the documentary filmmaker Alain Resnais. Resnais originally wanted to make a documentary about Hiroshima and the atomic bomb - but then he decided to make a feature film out of it. For this, the writer Marguerite Duras wrote the script. The director said to the author: Write literature, write as if you were writing a novel ... Forget the camera.

The film was a Franco-Japanese co-production with actors and crew members from both countries. The film was shot on the original locations in Hiroshima and Nevers. The film premiered in France on June 10, 1959.

Hiroshima, mon amour is one of the first representatives of the French Nouvelle Vague because of its innovative use of jump cuts and flashbacks . The American film critic Leonard Maltin compared the film in terms of its pioneering role with David Wark Griffith's The Birth of a Nation .

criticism

  • Lexicon of international film : "A film of remarkable individuality, with great psychological and artistic qualities, deeply pessimistic in its image of man."
  • Der Spiegel 18/1960: “With his first feature film, Alain Resnais, As der 'Neue Welle', leaves the beaten track of common cinema dramaturgy: The film does not fit into conventional categories either thematically or stylistically. (…) The film does not take place in external processes, but rather in meditative images of detailed observation and memory. Present and remembered past are seamlessly merged by an ingenious image montage. With this film, which can be compared with the novels à la James Joyce and Marcel Proust , director Resnais does not want to show reality as it is, but rather the image that it impresses on the consciousness of the heroine: 'Hiroshima mon amour' is filmed Awareness."
  • The magazine Cahiers du cinéma printed in its issue 97 (July 1959) a discussion by six of its editors under the title “Hiroshima, notre amour”.
  • Jean-Luc Godard : You can speak of a film without any cinematographic model and describe it as “ Faulkner + Stravinsky ”, but not as the film artist plus someone else.
  • Éric Rohmer : "I think in a few years, in ten, twenty or thirty years, we will know whether 'Hiroshima mon amour' was the most important film of the post-war period, the first modern work of the sound film."

Awards

Hiroshima, mon amour was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959 . In 1960, it won a New York Film Critics Circle Award for best foreign language film , while leading actress Emmanuelle Riva received the French Étoile de Cristal for best actress . In the same year, the Association Française de la Critique de Cinéma awarded the film the Prix ​​Méliès .

Alain Resnais was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Prize in 1961 . At the British Film Academy Awards in 1961, Hiroshima, mon amour was nominated for best film and for best foreign-language actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and won the United Nations Award .

Marguerite Duras received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1961 .

literature

  • Edward Buscombe: Hiroshima mon amour (1959). In: Steven Jay Schneider (Ed.): 1001 films. Edition Olms, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-283-00497-8 , p. 174
  • Carmen Dreisen: Intermediality using the example of Moderato cantabile & Hiroshima mon amour. Diplomica, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8428-5093-4 .
  • Marguerite Duras: Hiroshima mon amour. Librairie Gallimard, Paris 1960
    • German edition: Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima mon amour. Translated from the French by Walter Maria Guggenheimer . In: Enno Patalas (ed.): Spectaculum . Texts of modern films. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1961
    • Paperback edition: Hiroshima mon amour. Film novella with a preliminary remark by Marguerite Duras. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-518-36612-2 .
    • Spectrum book series : Hiroshima mon amour. Film scenario. Afterword by Ruth Herlinghaus. Volume 28, Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin 1970
  • Dieter Krusche, Jürgen Labenski : Reclam's film guide. 7th edition, Reclam, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-15-010205-7 , p. 256

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edward Buscombe: Hiroshima mon amour (1959). In: Steven Jay Schneider (Ed.): 1001 films. Edition Olms, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-283-00497-8 , p. 174.
  2. ^ Dieter Krusche, Jürgen Labenski : Reclams film guide. 7th edition, Reclam, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-15-010205-7 , p. 256.
  3. ↑ Hiroshima, mon amour. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ NEW IN GERMANY: Hiroshima, mon amour (France / Japan). In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1960 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Abridged version on English books.google
  6. ^ "De prime abord, dans ce film (il s'agit Hiroshima mon amour), on peut dire qu'il est sans influence cinématographique aucune. On peut dire que c'est Faulkner + Stravinsky, mais pas tel cinéaste plus tel autre. » Books.google
  7. ↑ "Je pense que dans quelques années, dans dix, vingt, ou trente ans, nous saurons si Hiroshima était le film le plus important depuis la guerre, le premier film modern du cinéma sonore" scenenationaledorleans.fr