The educated audience often uses “art” films in much the same self-indulgent way as the mass audience uses the Hollywood “product,” finding wish fulfillment in the form of cheap and easy congratulation on their sensitivities and their liberalism.

| Oct 17, 2023

Spans decades while remaining stubbornly in the present tense, the way our own memories ebb and flow according to what we’re feeling in the moment.

| Aug 20, 2023

The true centerpiece of the experience is Emmanuelle Riva.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

Hiroshima, Mon Amour is an impressive exercise of film techniques, mood embodying camera work, an almost intuitive kind of musical accompaniment, and verismo acting.

| Aug 17, 2022

Suddenly a new film. Really new, first-hand: a work which tells a story of its own in a style of its own. One is almost afraid to touch it.

| Aug 10, 2022

The first minutes of this movie are shocking. Emmanuelle Riva knocks us off with her beauty while her character reminds us that we'll never really know Hiroshima. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 22, 2022

The makers wanted to tell the story and do, in fact, tell it through images and speech. It would be difficult to imagine a silent Hiroshima. The dialogue is never really explanatory, but rather a key component of the story.

| Apr 5, 2022

A profoundly moving narrative which tackles themes such as grief and remembrance.

| Jan 3, 2022

Resnais' visual sense is matched only by such masters of images as Orson Welles or Von Sternberg.

| Jul 27, 2021

I was arrested by the way in which the film was shot and what it was saying, but I'll admit to not caring much about the two people at the center of Resnais' drama.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 12, 2021

A stunning piece of cinema, Hiroshima Mon Amour is also one of Resnais' most emotionally affecting pieces, for one cannot help but be moved by these lovelorn people, struggling hopelessly against the onslaught of time and the doom of being forgotten.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2020

It employs a foredoomed romance between a French actress and a Japanese architect as a narrative thread that binds together a series of haunting reflections about life in the Atomic Age.

| Nov 15, 2019

Here -- for the first time since Eisenstein -- we have a cinematic intelligence so quick, so subtle, so original, so at once passionate and sophisticated that it can be compared with Joyce, with Picasso, with Berg and Bartók and Stravinksy.

| Jul 15, 2019

Resnais, working from a screenplay by Marguerite Duras, delivers a striking opening that ultimately stands as a high point within the proceedings...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 29, 2019

It was one of the few movies in the world to express with near perfection the truth about the soul-destroying effects a city has on lovers, the pain it can cause them, the monsters that it turns them into.

| Sep 6, 2018

If so many films were not hybrids -half plays or half novels, half polemical or half literary-1 needn't say what it seems almost absurd to say, that Hiroshima Mon Amour is cinematic first, last and always.

| Jul 12, 2018

The film, a visual discovery that renewed the stagnation of so many directors of the time, was also about that relationship, combining it in a masterly way with political reflection, so that one could not exist without the other. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 8, 2018

Gorgeous and yearning, Hiroshima Mon Amour offers a still-modern thesis: Memory, like love, is a commodity that no one fully possesses.

| Aug 3, 2017

Over 50 years later, HMA is still aesthetically bold, yet somehow Resnais's radical stylistic shifts are never jarring, rather feeling like they are part of a cohesive whole.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 22, 2016

Exquisitely beautiful and harrowing meditation on war and love.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 15, 2016