New Waves: Hiroshima Mon Amour

Lucy Fischer (English and Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh) joins Carsey-Wolf Center Director Patrice Petro for a post-screening discussion of Alain Resnais’ 1959 film Hiroshima Mon Amour. Fischer places the film, which features a screenplay by the French novelist Marguerite Duras, in the context of other French New Wave cinema; drawing attention in particular to the juxtaposition of images that are simultaneously fictional and documentary, and to the ways in which Duras’s influence is felt throughout the finished film. Fischer and Petro discuss the critical reaction to the film, as well as its meditation on the nature of memory as one of the first major post-WW II art films. Recorded on 04/25/2019. [7/2019] [Show ID: 34843]
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[@silasward7316]

thank you for the upload, not enough discussion on Hiroshima Mon Amour compared to other french new wave films.

[@gracesss1272]

What a wonderful video..... I wish I was in the audience. But I am glad to know that others still recognise the beauty and the value of such a film and I’m not weird ☺️

[@michaelokorodudu2315]

Podcast needed

[@Lina19981]

great thank you for the video !

[@swagikuro]

love it!

[@sandorx4]

Did any of these persons see any of Resnais' other films, many of which are vastly superior to Hiroshima, mon amour?

[@gentlemanjake8005]

What many films are “vastly superior”?