Hiroshima mon amour

Alain Resnais’s masterpiece, one of the defining features of the French New Wave, is a powerful meditation on unspeakable memories and piercing desire.

  • Director

    Alain Resnais

  • With

    Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada

  • France-Japan 1959. 100min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    12A

  • English subtitles

In post-war Hiroshima, a Japanese architect and a French actress are involved in a passionate but doomed affair. Their present is haunted by thoughts of the future as they attempt to exorcise memories of past love and trauma, including an escape from Nevers to Paris by bike that coincides with the atom bomb detonating above Hiroshima. Japanese humanism and French innovation combine to forge one of cinema’s greatest films about the horrors of war and the pain of remembrance.

Contains scenes of graphic violence or injury and harm towards children.