Hiroshima Mon Amour by Alain Renais - Pratt Manhattan
Monday, June 10, 2013
6:30 – 8:30PM
6:30 – 8:30PM
Hiroshima Mon Amour by Alain Renais, screenplay by Marguerite Duras (1959)
A film about memory, war, healing and love. In director Alain Resnais’s poetic adaptation of Margueurite Duras’s acclaimed book, a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) in Japan meets a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) with whom she has an affair. Their relationship consists of conversations about the bombing at Hiroshima. They discuss the horrors that he and his family endured and her perception of the cataclysm back home in occupied France.
Filmmaker Hiroshi Sunari will be present for the screenings following the screenings.
Monday June 10th at 6.30 pm Pratt Manhattan - 144 West 14th Street - Room 213 (between 6th and 7th Avenues)