DVD
Hiroshima mon amour
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
DVD special edition.
Languages
In French, with English subtitles.
Performers
Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2015]
Physical Description
1 videodiscs (90 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (27 pages ; illustrations ; 19 cm)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
A French actress and a Japanese architect 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.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1959.
Special features: New 4k digital restoration ; 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's score ; Revoir "Hiroshima"..., a 2013 program about the film's restoration.