Hiroshima mon amour

2017 French Film Festival
In conjunction with the University of Louisville’s annual French Film Festival, the Speed will offer free screenings of four classic French films in February.

Hiroshima mon amour
Directed by Alain Resnais

Sunday, February 19, 12:30 pm

Free. First come, first served.

After being commissioned to create a short documentary centering on the atomic bomb, director Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad, Night and Fog) enlisted novelist Marguerite Duras to craft a beautiful and experimental screenplay which would become Hiroshima mon amour.

One of the most influential films of all time, as well as a defining film of the French New Wave, Hiroshima mon amour traces the brief but deeply intimate affair between a French actress and a Japanese architect in postwar Hiroshima. Resnais’s innovative approach to film structure, including recurring integrated flashbacks, and Duras’s Oscar-nominated poetic-prose script, would go on to cement Hiroshima as a pinnacle of French and international cinema. 1959, France, DCP, in French and Japanese with English subtitles, 90 minutes. Recommended for 13+.

Introduced by Wendy Yoder, Associate Professor of French, UofL.

Additional support provided by Liberal Studies, UofL.