Drama · History · Romance
French
1959 · Directed by Alain Resnais · 92 min
A French actress in Hiroshima to work on a film spends a night and a day with a Japanese architect. Their talk circles one question: what can anyone know of a catastrophe they did not live through? A poised, poetic drama about memory, desire and the limits of witness.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of the late-1950s break with classical storytelling, and the clearest bridge between Resnais's documentary essays and the modernist art cinema of the 1960s.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a film about how memory behaves, in fragments, by association and against our will, rather than as a story told in order.
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