Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959 Watch Full Movie in HD

Emmanuelle Riva

24 February 1927, Cheniménil, Vosges, France

Eiji Okada

13 June 1920, Chiba, Japan

Stella Dassas

Pierre Barbaud

10 October 1911, Saint-Eugène, Algiers, Algeria

Bernard Fresson

27 May 1931, Reims, Marne, France

Moira Lister

6 August 1923, Cape Town, South Africa

Alain Resnais

3 June 1922, Vannes, Morbihan, France

Marguerite Duras

4 April 1914, Gia Dinh, French Cochinchina [now Vietnam]

Elle

Played by: Emmanuelle Riva

Lui

Played by: Eiji Okada

Mother

Played by: Stella Dassas

Father

Played by: Pierre Barbaud

German Lover

Played by: Bernard Fresson

Q Network Film Desk

a particularly compelling and fascinating film, one that has endured well beyond its importance in throwing open the gates to a new era in French cinema

August 04, 2015

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Los Angeles Times

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.

October 16, 2014

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Times (UK)

Exquisitely beautiful and harrowing meditation on war and love.

January 15, 2016

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Epoch Times

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.

May 22, 2016

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CinePassion

A most chic Guernica, sumptuously abstract and visceral

August 09, 2015

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LarsenOnFilm

...effortlessly moves us between past and present, personal and political.

October 10, 2015

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Slant Magazine

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.

October 14, 2014

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Oregonian

If "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" is best enjoyed for its place in film history, its tragic love story and its haunting black-and-white cinematography, that still makes it a veritable must-see.

December 05, 2014

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Chicago Reader

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.

January 01, 2000

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Chicago Tribune

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

October 30, 2014

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Village Voice

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

October 14, 2014

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New York Times

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.

May 20, 2003