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...girl-meets-boy story is not as inextricably bound up with the hydrogen bomb as it seemed on first viewing. The two are not legitmately connected, since neither of the lovers was near Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped. The entire first part of the film revolves around Riva's efforts to create a recollection that isn't there...
Resnais made this film on a limited budget and on condition that it be about Hiroshima. Given those terms, you can't blame him if the story and setting don't ultimately correspond. You are then left merely technical objections. (One reviewer, accusing Resnais of bad faith, claims to have previously seen a Japanese horror movie containing some of the same "documentary" footage used in Hiroshima to illustrate radiation deformation...
Even for critical film-goers, however, Hiroshima remains valuable. It announces a theme which is to occupy Resnais' later work as well. In Marienbad and Muriel (1963), Resnais has continued to illustrate the thesis that you cannot remember what you ought to--for example, obligations to a former loved one. But for my money, I prefer to all of Resnais' work a film like Antonioni's L'Avventura, which makes exactly the same point without all the metaphysical mesmerism...
Hardly a Surprise. Peking's second nuclear explosion was a bit bigger than its first of seven months ago. It came on with at least 20 kilotons or, roughly, the same amount of destructive power carried by the Hiroshima bomb*-but it would be days before an analysis of its slowly spreading fallout would tell if the Chinese had advanced the state of their nuclear art. In any event, the blast was hardly a surprise-or a new reason for fear. Said Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin: "I do not see a direct threat of nuclear...
...year for more than 40 years, to bring forth a race of poems. The worst of them are idiot brainchildren afflicted with echolalia; the best of them are fierce and radiant creatures of the metaphysical imagination. In Dirge for the New Sunrise, dated the day the bomb fell on Hiroshima, Dame Edith writes in her ultimate Miltonic manner...