Review of Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) by Elena . — 27 Dec 2007
Lovers in ash...
A touch of Derrida in film? The anguish of modernist fractured reality and self torments Resnais in Hiroshima mon Amour as he, through his characters that meet and almost reach one another, seeks to find unity. See this film if you hunger for unity, and long to find the constant between the person you were yesterday (and many years ago), and the person you are becoming. What a wistfully futile attempt this film's author makes in trying to glue together into an orderly whole all the shards of memory into a flowing, cohesive whole! This film is almost the death of personality, of individuality and how we understand and define it. Who are these characters? They reveal themselves more wholly, more openly than any one would in real life, but all they say leaves them still in the dark.. Is it because they hide, or lie? Or simply because there is nothing to reveal, or at least, they have not learnt a way to reveal it?
This review of Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) was written by Elena . on 27 Dec 2007.
Hiroshima Mon Amour has generally received very positive reviews.
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