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At its initial 1959 release, it was excluded from the official selection at the Cannes Film Festival to avoid political friction with American authorities over its portrayal of the atomic bombing. Criterion Blu-ray Special Features

The film opens with a controversial and haunting sequence: close-ups of entwined, ashen bodies that initially appear scarred but are revealed to be covered in ash or perhaps rain. As the opening credits roll, the camera intercuts these intimate images with harrowing documentary footage of Hiroshima victims and the atomic aftermath. Hiroshima.mon.amour.1959.1080p.Criterion.Bluray...

. It follows a day-and-a-half affair between an unnamed French actress and a Japanese architect in post-war Hiroshima. At its initial 1959 release, it was excluded

Hiroshima mon amour (1959), directed by Alain Resnais, is a seminal French New Wave film often cited as one of the most influential movies ever made. It is a deeply poetic, non-linear exploration of memory, love, and trauma, centered on a brief, intense affair between a French actress and a Japanese architect in postwar Hiroshima. It is a deeply poetic, non-linear exploration of

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He represents the scars of Hiroshima, having lost his family to the bomb while he was away at war.