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lyrical and unpredictable Hiroshima Mon Amour is a movie Virginia Woolf would have been proud of. it is stream of consciousness right before your eyes. the film starts off with entwined limbs covered with ashes, then abruptly cuts to a series of vignettes similar to Citizen Kane's "News on March". This scene is followed by the proper story where a French actress shoots a "peace" film in Hiroshima while her Japanese lover follows her. Their affair is intercut with flashbacks as the French actress tries to save her slowly fading memories. Hiroshima Mon Amour was released in the late 1950s, it received wide acclaim though it's pretty much forgotten now. French director Alain Resnais directed it, while the poetic screenplay was written by Marguerite Duras.

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