What is memory but a scar in the head (but also trauma leading to rebirth - natural lower immediacy)

フランスにとって福一で汚染された日本の首都は広島なのだ。日本フランス協会の事務局はサルコジが急遽来日以来只券での帰仏つまり強制送還以来実態として広島に置かれている。

great analysis, where can I find the Michael Roth article??

My God, how the mighty have fallen. The cinema of today, is in rags in-comparison to this or “The Tenant” or “The Good Earth”. I guess every society reaps what it sows, when it comes to everything, including the arts.

Loving your videos hope you keep going 👌🏻👌🏻💙

Hello, your analysis is absolutely on point, sharp, beautifully narrated. You are right, this is a masterpiece, and one of my all time favourite. Thank you for this great moment of culture.

Loved your analysis and sensitivity

I come across this often enough I feel. The man she ran to, a Gestapo nazi, and sees him get shot. BUT, in our class and others, we never delved further on WHAT IT WAS THAT SHE WAS GOING TO TELL HIM, AND WHO SAW THAT FROM THE DISTANCE TO SHOOT HIM, BUT NOT HER.... So she is from Freedom fighters it seems from France, carrying a message to her nazi lover and so anxiously, and instead of her getting shot carrying the traitor message I presume against her own kind or Jews to the nazi, He gets shot instead. HERE IS IT AGAIN - THE LADY OR THE TIGER. HERE, as I mentioned too before to a creative writing class, nope, never the Lady -- the nazi gestapo as the Tiger. BUT through the rest of the play, or script, nothing on what exactly she passed on, but her her her what she went through. Naked and spit on, etc. a medieval rite but Yi Sun Shin admiral was in a cage and paraded through town. Mussolini was stripped upside down and hung. WHAT did she say to foil the freedom fighters - here there, etc. but runs to him in open field where she's so visible. I feel all the civilian strife and their stories of survival need to be told because there are so many. To be so complicit is too odd to me and conflicting. And of course, as with any despots like Japan, a whole new subset are willing to be so complicit and obedient violently so to uphold that power they didn't have before or otherwise. I wish here there was more on substance than the weepy part in terms of what exactly was she doing, what information was she carrying, from whom, and for how long as a messenger or spy, and why this message particularly close to the mid or end of the war. Whether the other movie Jane March, and etc. she was a waif minor teenager there with Ng, and here she is older, but somehow she's not revealing the stuff that is meaty and inquiring minds want to know!! But later washed out, who would care - and doesn't that always ring in a teenage concubine whose Ng will follow her all the days of her life? and then what was going on then with the Nazi after. Then she's in Japan. maybe another Howard's End scenario later in life. oooh. These are stories of the girl as a lover not as a man, and it's very dependent on the passive woman side of things, but she is somehow at the crux of holding some vital information that is crucial to the enemy - unfortunately in the dire hands of those who manipulate her without her own definitely woman in the 21st century educated stance with her own independent free will, deciding on her own. It's great, but to be continued....

Please make more video essays.

Great video

Awesome video. Absolutely loved your analysis on the film, I’ve seen clips but now I can’t wait to watch the entire thing! Thanks so much for sharing :)

One of the masterpieces of Cinema 👏👏👏👏

Thank you so much! Did you stop making Videos?

Thank you you saved my final,,, I'm not very used to watching artsy films like these and i had no idea where to begin with my analysis this has given me a more clear idea!

this movie is so up its ass and unintentionally funny

I watched this tonight. I've lived in Japan 13 years and I wondered why the Japanese crew/wardrobe staff allowed Elle to wear her yukata (cotton kimono) wrong in the hotel scene. It's taboo to wear it with the right hand side over the left (shown in your video at 2:25). This is the way corpses are dressed after death, for the living the left side goes over the right. You may think this detail is insignificant, but given how many Japanese people worked on the film, it seems highly unlikely that this wouldn't have been commented upon. Japanese people in Japan tend to be very encouraging of foreigners wearing kimono or yukata (I know feelings within the Japanese diaspora are very wide ranging with regards to this and issues of cultural appropriation), so typically poeple are excited to help foreigners dress correctly and avoid dressing mistakes such as having the wrong side of the collar on top. All native Japanese people would be familiar with this, especially at the time this film was made when far more people wore kimono every day. This leads me to wonder if it was deliberate, or an accident that Rennais left in, and if so did he do it to signal her lack of cultural understanding, or the fact that in a way we are all just the collective dead moments that make up all of our memories. It's a minor detail in some ways, but as major as someone on screen wearing a dress inside out, when considered from a Japanese cultural perspective. I'm not an expert on Japan, I just live here. Japanese people please lmk if I'm looking at this wrong and I'll amend my comment to reflect that, thanks.

So incredible. Your take on the film and the editing is absolutely perfect.

immediately thought hiroshima, mon amour would become one of my favorite movies as soon as the credits started rolling, but after watching this video and seeing the film through the lenses of this excellent analysis, i can only be even more sure of it.

Where can I watch this movie with English subtitles?

Található-e magyar nyelvű szinkronnal.

I agree with your comment that every time you see this film, there is something new to appreciate in its depth. I have a copy and have watched it many times. There are many wonderful films in the world and they are wonderful in many different ways but this one is like no other. There is just nothing that compares to it in both form and content.

Saw it on TCM, great movie blew me away for a 50s movie

plssss do subtitle in french plss

Te amo, gracias

thank you for your analysis! :)

Hey man, no offense but this was a great video and I really appreciate it 😌❣️

I just watched Hiroshima Mon Amour and your reflection on it. Thank you for helping me gain more insight into this amazing film.

Excellent analysis, it's one of my favorites movies as well ! A master piece as you well said.

Thank you for this amazing video and analysis! I am absolutely impressed!!

Thank you! This was a beautiful review...

Delightful

Very good essay here. Your Hiroshima video is also outstanding. I will be sharing it in my latest video. Oh... and from one maker-of-film-analyses to another, I need to ask you a favor: can you look at my take on 2001: a space odyssey?

lovely take, very observational

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This film taught me how to speak French.

This is the first film I watched in a class on the French New Wave. It left a deep impression on me; I still don’t know how or in what way, but it did. You did a great job analyzing the film! Would you consider doing a video essay on Godard’s Breathless? Another great movie to pick apart and analyze.

Thank you for this! I saw this film at age 18 or 19, soon after it came to the US with subtitles. I instantly thought it great. Soon after that I lived in Berkeley for c. 7 years, and attended many showings of great and interesting films of world cinema at two marvelous movie theaters there. I remain a cinephile--an artistic medium second only to music for me--and after a hiatus of almost 40 years have seen it twice again, I think, in the last 20 years, finding it every bit as great as I thought in my youth. (To watch it demands of me such sustained and close attention that bringing less than that to it--as to a Bach cantata, say--seems almost sacrilegious.) And up to now, at age 79, though there are many great films I have not seen, I count this as the second greatest, after Ray's Apu trilogy (which I think of as one film). I consider "Hiroshima Mon Amour" the most powerful antiwar film I've seen; the musical score remains one of the best; the poetic words of Duras rise to the level of myth, pointing beyond themselves to large and deep mysteries; and my memory of the film shines in my mind and heart like a beacon. I remain--not puzzled, but--wondering, about the open, ambiguous or ambivalent, ending of the film, at which time the woman is still undecided about whether to return to her family in France, or stay.

Your work is not scratching the surface here but caressing it with a feather just as this movie does it with souls... bravo et merci pour votre travail

love this, amazing production

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amazing

What's the song that starts at 4:17? I think it's in the film too but I can't find it on the OST on Spotify.

A poignant film I saw age 13 with my first boyfriend, a year after my father died.❤

I love your analysis. People don't talk about this movie enough

About to watch for class :(❤️

This is amazing! Why doesn’t this have more views? Very well done, beautiful analysis

OMG thank you so much for this video. Its my favourite movie! It is so underrated and needs more appraisal 😂😍

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