Product: Hiroshima mon amour [VHS] (1960)
Rating: 5.0
How can you be happy in Hiroshima?
The action occurs in little more than twenty four hours ; a dream like prologue composed of brief shots of naked torsos intercut with shots of a hospital and museum , newreels of Hiroshima 's atomic devastation , footage from a 1953 documentary Japanese film Hiroshima (directed by Hideo Sekigawa ) , a reenactment of the holocaust , and views of the rebuilty city .Both lovers are happily married . And they decide to trust one to another . But the memories of destruction and the unhappiness environment is a serious obstacle for them to think about the happiness in the middle of the hell and destruction .Hiroshima mon amour shared with the Venezuelan film Araya the International Critics Award and received the Film Writers Award . It also shared with The four hundred blows (1959) a Prix Meliés. Universaly praised the film received the New York Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Film (1960) and Marguerite Duras was nominated for an Oscar for Story and Screenplay - written for the Screen in 1960.The film 's central theme is the memory and forgetfulness ,a sinister leitmotif repeated in hypnotic mood . All experiences in time are subject to oblivion . She is an actress (rebuilding of the emotive memory) and he is an architect (rebuilding of new landscapes, the perfect motive for destroy and dream with a new future).The characters are superb depicted , complex and changing . And one more detail : I have seen this film year after year , and the film , far from getting old , it renews itself , that is the best proof for stating we are in front one of the landmark film in the screen .