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

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

| Jul 27, 2021

Exquisitely beautiful and harrowing meditation on war and love.

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

"Hiroshima Mon Amour" will always be too studied a masterwork for some tastes. But Riva's performance, chief among its triumphs, remains electrifying.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 30, 2014

That rare movie in which present and past meld in every frame to convey a sense of time obliterated, or a dream having a nightmare.

| Oct 16, 2014

The first film to juxtapose disastrous erotic passion with the political disasters of the mid century.

| Oct 14, 2014

The facticity of the film itself is continually called into question by Alain Resnais's decision to blur the boundaries between nonfiction and fiction films.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 14, 2014

Although it presents, on occasion, a baffling repetition of words and ideas, much like vaguely recurring dreams, it, nevertheless, leaves the impression of a careful coalescence of art and craftsmanship.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2003

Integrating past and present, poetic images and documentary footage, music and Marguerite Duras' dialogue, the film achieved a structural balance of such emotional and intellectual power that audiences were stunned.

| Jan 1, 2000