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A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) who has come to Hiroshima to make a
film about peace, has a one night stand with a Japanese man (Eiji Okada).
After sex, they come to talk about Hiroshima, and of course about the bomb
that was dropped on it some 14 years earlier, and while she claims to know
everything about it despite being here for the first time, he just wants
to forget since he has lost his family then and there. Eventually, the
actress opens up to her Japanese lover, telling him about her wartime
experiences, when she had a love affair with a German soldier and was
treated as an outcast when the fortunes of war changed, so much so that
her parents hid her away in the basement. Eventually, the actress found
her German lover dead, another victim of the war. For her, her Japanese
lover is the reincarnation of her German soldier, and he actually loves
her back, too, but they are both married and just cannot be together,
especially since she will leave Japan the very next day - and their
inability to be with each other is their own personal Hiroshima. Hiroshima
mon Amour is a film about many things, about love and war, memory and
forgetting, France and Japan, progress and tradition, and pretty much
whatever else you want it to be about. And being about that many things in
a mere 90 minutes, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Hiroshima mon
Amour is at the same time a contradiction in itself, it's a narrative
film but with a labyrinthine narrative structure that deliberately uses
flashbacks to seemingly distract from its main story, that throws
narrative conventions overboard just to bring its story across. Add to
that an extremely elegant directorial effort, and you've got a film you
simply have to see ...
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