Product: Hiroshima mon amour [VHS] (1960)
Rating: 5.0
For those who are hungry for a more meaningful film going experience...
For viewers that might be hungry for a more meaningful film going experience, or nostalgic for a time when the discussion that followed the movie was as important as the experience of seeing the film itself, Hiroshima Mon Amour delivers on all fronts.The story is so simple, and so simply told, that many viewers may wonder at the director's motives for making the film in the first place. For while in one sense it is simply a love story, the personal memories that each lover relates to the other in the course of their brief relationship become an extended meditation on experience and memory, reminding us that unless such memories are preserved, the lessons of history often are lost.It's the love story that gives the ideas form and immediacy, supplying the pain and the passion behind the events. Without them, the events would be meaningless--and quickly forgotten. Perhaps the point of the film is to remind us that we can't have a sense of history without the accompanying emotions to make it meaningful. In any case, Hiroshima Mon Amour is certainly a film open to many interpretations.