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Argos Films
Directed by: Alain Resnais
A cornerstone of the French New Wave, the first feature from Alain Resnais is one of the most influential films of all time. A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering. With an innovative flashback structure and an Academy Award–nominated screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima mon amour is a moody masterwork that delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish.
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Format:
DVD
Disc:
DVD-9 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Audio Options:
French Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Resolution:
480p/29.97
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Interview, Restoration Demonstration, Booklet
- 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
- Revoir “Hiroshima” . . . , a 2013 program about the film’s restoration
- A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones and excerpts from a 1959 Cahiers du cinéma roundtable discussion about the film
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Release Credits
Producer: Jason Altman
Artwork: Sarah Habibi
Artwork: F. Ron Miller
Release Notes on Restoration
Hiroshima mon Amour
Hiroshima mon amour is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1, On widescreen televisions, blaclk bars will appear on the left and right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. Restored in 2013 by Argos Films, the Fondation Groupama Gan pour le Cinéma, the Foundation Technicolor pour le Patrimoine du Cinéma, and the Cineteca di Bologna, with support from the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, this new digital transfer was created in 4K resolution on an ARRISCAN film scanner from the original camera negative, the internegatives of the special effects, and various archival footage held at l'lmmagine Ritrovata at the Cineteca di Bologna. The original monaural soundtrack was restored by L'lmmagine Ritrovata and the Criterion Collection.