| Edition |
DVD special edition. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) |
| Physical Medium |
DVD video 4 3/4 in. rda. |
| Description |
digital optical mono Dolby Digital 1.0 rda. |
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laser optical NTSC rda. |
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video file DVD video region 1 rda. |
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Motion picture. |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 196.
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| System Details |
DVD; NTSC; region 1; 4:3 presentation; Dolby digital 1.0. |
| Cast |
Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1959; restored by Argos Films in 2013. |
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Full screen (1.37:1) |
| 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." -- (Source of summary not specified) |
| Note |
Special features: New 4k digital restoration; 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. |
| Language |
French dialogue; optional English subtitles. |
| Subject |
Foreign films -- France.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Fiction films.
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Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
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Feature films.
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Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- Drama.
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| Added Author |
Resnais, Alain, 1922-2014, film director.
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Duras, Marguerite, screenwriter.
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Kamenka, Sacha, 1910-1970, film producer.
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Shirakawa, Takeo, film producer.
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Halfon, Samy, film producer.
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Riva, Emmanuèle, actor.
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Okada, Eiji, 1920-1995, actor.
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Dassas, Stella, actor.
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Barbaud, Pierre, actor.
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Fresson, Bernard, 1931-2002, actor.
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Vierny, Sacha, 1919-2001, director of photography.
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Takahashi, Michio, director of photography.
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Delerue, Georges, 1925-1992, composer (expression)
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Fusco, Giovanni, 1906-1968, composer (expression)
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Colpi, Henri, editor of moving image work.
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Chasney, Jasmine, editor of moving image work.
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Sarraute, Anne, 1930-2008, editor of moving image work.
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Esaka, Minoru, production designer.
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Mayo, 1905-1990, production designer.
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Petri, J., production designer.
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Collery, Gerard, costume designer.
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Cowie, Peter, commentator.
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Thomas, François, 1959- interviewee (expression)
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Page, Tim, 1954- interviewee (expression)
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Jones, Kent, 1964- writer of supplementary textual content.
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Janus Films, production company.
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Argos Films, production company.
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Como Films, production company.
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Daiē, Kabushiki Kaisha, production company.
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Pathe Overseas Productions, production company.
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Cahiers du cinéma (Firm), interviewee (expression)
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| ISBN |
9781681430201 |
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1681430207 |
| Standard No. |
715515151610 |
| Music No. |
CC2508DDVD The Criterion Collection |
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CC2508D The Criterion Collection |
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