A young French actress is making an anti-war film in the rebuilt Japanese city of Hiroshima. Here, she has an affair with a Japanese architect, even though both of them are happily married. She will soon have to fly back home to Paris, but she spends one last night with her lover. At a café, she recounts the story of her first tragic love with a German soldier during the war....
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Emmanuelle Riva | Elle |
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Eiji Okada | Lui |
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Stella Dassas | Mother |
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Pierre Barbaud | Father |
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Bernard Fresson | German Lover |
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Moira Lister | (Dubbed Emmanuelle Riva) |
| Director | Alain Resnais |
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| Writer | Marguerite Duras | |
| Producer | Anatole Dauman, Samy Halfon | |
| Musician | Georges Delerue, Giovanni Fusco | |
| Photography | Michio Takahashi, Sacha Vierny | |
| Edition | The Criterion Collection |
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| Packaging | Keep Case |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Academy Ratio (1.37:1) |
| Audio Tracks | PCM Mono [French] |
| Subtitles | English |
| Distributor | Criterion |
| Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | Jul 14, 2015 |
| Regions | Region A |
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| Quantity | 1 |
| Index | 1942 |
| Added Date | Jul 21, 2017 17:41:21 |
| Modified Date | Jun 12, 2022 00:34:31 |
Bought at B&N summer sale 2017
Disc Features
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie
Interviews with director Alain Resnais from 1961 and 1980
Interviews with actor Emmanuelle Riva from 1959 and 2003
New interview with film scholar François Thomas, author of L’atelier d’Alain Resnais
New interview with music scholar Tim Page about the film’s score
Revoir “Hiroshima” . . . , a 2013 program about the film’s restoration
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones and excerpts from a 1959 Cahiers du cinéma roundtable discussion about the film
New cover by Sarah Habibi
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