Hiroshima mon amour / Janus Films ; Argos Films, Como Films, Daiei Motion Picture Co Ltd et Pathe Overseas Productions presentent ; réalisation, Alain Resnais ; scenario et dialoques, Marguerite Duras.

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:DVD special edition.
Published: [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]
Corporate Authors:
Janus Films (Production company)
Argos Films (Production company)
Como Films (Production company)
Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha (1945-1971) (Production company)
Pathe Overseas Productions (Production company)
Cahiers du cinéma (Firm)
Criterion Collection (Firm) (Publisher)
Other Authors:
Resnais, Alain, 1922-2014 (Film director)
Duras, Marguerite (Screenwriter)
Riva, Emmanuèle (Actor)
Okada, Eiji, 1920-1995 (Actor)
Dassas, Stella (Actor)
Barbaud, Pierre (Actor)
Fresson, Bernard, 1931-2002 (Actor)
Vierny, Sacha, 1919-2001 (director of photography.)
Takahashi, Michio (director of photography.)
Delerue, Georges, 1925-1992 (composer (expression))
Fusco, Giovanni, 1906-1968 (composer (expression))
Colpi, Henri (Editor of moving image work)
Chasney, Jasmine (Editor of moving image work)
Sarraute, Anne, 1930-2008 (Editor of moving image work)
Esaka, Minoru (Production designer)
Mayo, 1905-1990 (Production designer)
Petri, Maurice (Production designer)
Collery, Gerard (Costume designer)
Cowie, Peter (Commentator)
Thomas, François, 1959- (interviewee (expression))
Page, Tim, 1954- (interviewee (expression))
Jones, Kent, 1960- (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Series:Criterion collection ; 196.
Subjects:
Feature films > France.
Man-woman relationships > Drama.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > Drama.
Format: Video DVD
Hiroshima mon amour /
Detail
Summary:Set in 1959, a French actress and a Japanese architect engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Other Title:
Hiroshima mon amour (Motion picture)
Notes:Full screen (1.37:1).
Originally released as a motion picture in 1959; restored by Argos Films in 2013.
Special features: Audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie (2002); Alain Resnais (interviews with director Alain Resnais from 1961 and 1980); Emmanuelle Riva (interviews with actor Emmanuelle Riva from 1959 and 2003); François Thomas on Hiroshima mon amour (new interview with film scholar François Thomas); Memory and meaning: the music of "Hiroshima mon amour" (new interview with music scholar Tim Page about the film's score); Revoir "Hiroshima" ... (a 2013 program about the film's restoration). Includes a booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones and excerpts from a 1959 Cahiers du cinéma roundtable discussion about the film.
Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson.
French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
This DVD is for home use only, not for public viewing, except for educational purposes directly related to UC courses.
Bib#: 2670343
Format:DVD; NTSC; region 1; Dolby digital 1.0.
Production Credits:Directors of photography, Sacha Vierny, Takahashi Michio ; music, Georges Delerue, Giovanni Fusco ; editors, Henri Colpi, Jasmine Chasney, Anne Sarraute ; production designers, Esaka, Mayo, Pétri ; costume designer, Gerard Collery.
Series:The Criterion collection ; 196
Language:French
English
ISBN:9781681430201
1681430207
Bib#:2670343

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