LAB CLASSICS: HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (4K RESTORATION)
Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour returns to our screen this May to coincide with Liberation Day and the May 4th Remembrance. A haunting meditation on memory, love, and the scars of war, the film pairs the personal with the political in poetic, unforgettable ways.
With Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Alain Resnais created a radically new kind of cinema—one where memory is not just a theme but the very fabric of the film itself. Emmanuelle Riva’s unnamed French actress drifts through Hiroshima, her affair with a Japanese man entangled with echoes of another past—her youth in occupied France, her lost love. The film unfolds as a continuous dialogue between past and present, where personal and collective traumas blur and history becomes an emotional force. Resnais and screenwriter Marguerite Duras use repetition and fragmentation as a cinematic equivalent of memory, making the film feel like a desperate attempt to grasp the ungraspable. Hiroshima Mon Amour is not a conventional love story but a hypnotic meditation on loss, time, and the impossibility of fully remembering—or forgetting.
