Hiroshima mon amour /
- Blu-ray special edition. First printing 2015.
, France ; Japan
- 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
- 013000
- 4 3/4 in.
- The Criterion collection ; 196 .
- Criterion collection 196. .
Originally released as a motion picture in 1959; restored by Argos Films in 2013. Special features: Audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie (2002); Interviews with director Alain Resnais from 1961 and 1980; Interviews with actor Emmanuelle Riva from 1959 and 2003; New interview with film scholar François Thomas; New interview with music scholar Tim Page about the film's score; Revoir "Hiroshima"..., a 2013 program about the film's restoration; booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones and excerpts from a 1959 Cahiers du cinéma roundtable discussion about the film. Full screen (1.37:1).
Directors of photography, Michio Takahashi, Sacha Vierny ; editors, Henri Colpi, Jasmine Chasney ; music, Georges Delerue, Giovanni Fusco ; costume designer, Gerard Collery. Directors of photography, Michio Takahashi, Sacha Vierny ; editors, Henri Colpi, Jasmine Chasney ; music, Georges Delerue, Giovanni Fusco ; costume designer, Gerard Collery.
Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson.
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.
This Blu-ray disc will not play on standard DVD players.