Easy to watch? Eh, sometimes. It's catchy, and was way ahead of it's time. Easy to understand? No - no, not really, you have to work with it and follow it through. BUT, once you to follow where it's going, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, a really beautiful peice of poetry transferred to the big screen. Renais was truely talented, and had an incredible understanding of human emotion and reaction. It would have been difficult for any director to portray such a complex story in a way that an audience could view and understand, but Renais was able to take the story and make not only a film, but a peice of art. The film was almost like picture poetry - I don't think I'd ever seen anything like it, apart from more art oriented films full of music and singing about your emotions as to make them perfectly clear (Moulin Rouge, Chicago, etc)
I think the thing I enjoyed most about this film was its connections - to each action there was a reaction, to every reaction a reason. Not only was it a love story between Lui and Elle, but a relationship between Nevers and Hiroshima. Both stories seemed to run parrallel to one and other. Nevers basqued in sun the day Hiroshima was bombed - years later, as Hiroshima heals, Nevers is left guilty and can't seem to move on from the tradgedy. As she tried to make peace with Hiroshima, she finds it isn't, in fact, Hiroshima that she needs forgiveness from - it's herself.
Resnais took a documentary appeal mixed with a VERY modern approach to filmmaking in Hiroshima, Mon Amour, and it worked beautifully.
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Catie Wolf says it right, Hiroshima, Mon Amour is like a piece of visual poetry. And like poetry, is hard to understand in a logical sense.
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