Hiroshima mon amour

A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva), happily married, meets a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) while filming in Hiroshima fourteen years after the end of the war; he too is happily married. The two make love for 24 hours - aware of what separates and will separate them.

The woman's memories of her first great love with a German occupation soldier in Nevers, France, and the setting of Hiroshima bring home the contrast between personal experience and historical setting. A masterpiece and one of the great love stories in film history, written by Marguerite Duras, cinematically realized by Alain Resnais.

A recommendation from Valentina, Billeteur & Cashier

"Hiroshima mon amour is my greatest favorite film. Loss, nostalgia, the unbearable heaviness, pain and slow oblivion are so sensitively and honestly portrayed on screen that the viewing experience becomes a liberation. In the process, the film conveys humanity and humane sentiments that touch us all and make us reflect on our own lives."