Ciné Club: Hiroshima my love

City: New Delhi
Location: M. L. Bhartia Auditorium , Alliance Francaise de Delhi
Date: Fri, 2011/01/21 -5:30pm – 7:30pm
Price: Open to all.
Category: Film screening
Duration: 90 minutes

 

Hiroshima my love / Hiroshima mon amour
Friday, 21 January 2011 5.30 p.m. & 7.30 p.m.

1959-B&W-90 min
Director: Alain  Resnais

Hiroshima mon amour is one of the all-time greatest French films. Directed by the extraordinary Alain Resnais with a screenplay by Marguerite Duras, the film is often referred to as the starting point of the Nouvelle Vague movement in cinema. Set in post-war Hiroshima, it relates the story of a French woman and a Japanese man (referred to simply as ‘She’ and ‘He’) who meet and have a brief affair. Their short time together, juxtaposed against the landscape of devastation and loss, intertwines narratives of trauma and memory. Resnais’s use of miniature flashbacks evoked a uniquely nonlinear storyline literally rewriting the rules of film-making.

This film will be screened in conjunction with the Flashpoint Human Rights Film Festival.