Tattered Cover FREE Classic: Hiroshima Mon Amour - August 7

France, 1959, 90 Minute Running Time
Additional Countries: Japan
Genre/Subjects: Drama, Foreign, Romance, War
Language: French, Japanese, English English Sub-Titles

Saturday, August 7 at 7pm - FREE!
Tickets available ONE HOUR before show at the box office
Hosted by Howie Movshovitz and presented by Tattered Cover Bookstore and Colorado Public Radio
35mm presentation - This is Renais’ first feature and one of the crucial films of the French new wave. An actress (Emmanuèle Riva) making a film about peace in Hiroshima, has a brief but intense affair with a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada). The film is about history, memory, forgetting and love. Script by Marguerite Duras; filmed magnificently by Sacha Vierny and Michio Takahashi. 91 minutes. Shown in a beautiful 35mm print.

DIRECTOR: Alain Resnais
Screenwriter: Marguerite Duras
Cinematographer: Michio Takahashi, Sacha Vierny
Music: Georges Delerue, Giovanni Fusco
Principal Cast: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Bernard Fresson

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