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Additional Information:
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910852589) Profile, Contents, Summary, Excerpt... (where available)
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Title:
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Hiroshima mon amour /
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Edition Statement:
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DVD special edition.
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Publisher:
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[Irvington, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]
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Description:
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
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Media Type:
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Physical Medium:
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DVD video 4 3/4 in.
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Series Statement:
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The Criterion collection ; 196
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Notes:
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1959; restored by Argos Films in 2013.
| Full screen (1.37:1)
| Special features: 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.
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Credits:
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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.
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Cast:
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Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson.
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Summary:
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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.
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System Details:
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DVD; NTSC; region 1; 4:3 presentation; Dolby digital 1.0.
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Language Note:
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French dialogue; optional English subtitles.
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Topical Subject:
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Man-woman relationships--Drama.
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Geographic Subject:
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Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--Drama.
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Genre/ Form:
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--Fiction films
--Video recordings for the hearing impaired
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Other Authors:
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Resnais, Alain, 1922-2014, film director.
; Duras, Marguerite, screenwriter.
; Kamenka, Sacha, 1910-1970, film producer.
; Shirakawa, Takeo, film producer.
; Halfon, Samy, film producer.
; Okada, Eiji, 1920-1995, actor.
; Dassas, Stella, actor.
; Barbaud, Pierre, actor.
; Fresson, Bernard, 1931-2002, actor.
; Vierny, Sacha, 1919-2001, director of photography.
; Takahashi, Michio, director of photography.
; Delerue, Georges, 1925-1992, composer (expression)
; Fusco, Giovanni, 1906-1968, composer (expression)
; Colpi, Henri, editor of moving image work.
; Chasney, Jasmine, editor of moving image work.
; Sarraute, Anne, 1930-2008, editor of moving image work.
; Esaka, Minoru, production designer.
; Mayo, 1905-1990, production designer.
; Petri, production designer.
; Collery, Gerard, costume designer.
; Cowie, Peter, commentator.
; Thomas, François, 1959- interviewee (expression)
; Page, Tim, 1954- interviewee (expression)
; Jones, Kent, 1964- writer of supplementary textual content.
; Riva, Emmanuèle, actor.
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Other Corporations:
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Janus Films,
; Argos Films,
; Como Films,
; Daiē, Kabushiki Kaisha,
; Pathe Overseas Productions,
; Criterion Collection (Firm)
; Cahiers du cinéma (Firm)
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Series:
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Criterion collection ; ; 196.
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ISBN:
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9781681430201
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Standard Number:
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715515151610
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Publisher Number:
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CC2508DDVD (The Criterion Collection)
; CC2508D (The Criterion Collection)
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