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...picture, and there are several exceptional scenes in which the Old Originality shines through. But although he uses the film medium well, and achieves a skillful montage effect at points, Chabrol offers little that is creative. Whereas the contemporary French cinema has often been artistic in its freshness (Hiroshima, Mon Amour is an outstanding example), here it is mechanized in its very "artisticness...
Hiroshima Mon Amour begins with a man and a woman in bed talking. I saw Hiroshima, she says; you saw nothing, he replies. I saw Hiroshima, she repeats, and the camera shows her walking along new Hiroshima streets, strolling through treeless Hiroshima parks, entering the antiseptic New Hiroshima Hotel. You saw nothing...
...everyone it touched. The only real point of contact between the French woman and the Japanese architect lies in their hatred of the war, a hatred arising from two completely different ideas of what the war was. Abject terror, however, is the overwhelming constituent of both views, and Hiroshima Mon Amour, is above anything else, an attempt to instill that terror in a populace which has built the new Hiroshima and has forgotten, or never experienced the destruction...
...series of deft, slightly uncanny flashbacks. Both of the actors, Emmanuele Riva and Eiji Okada, perform excellently--she with an old woman's weariness--he with a solid diffidence which is never completely penetrated. Both as piece of cinematic fiction and as a document of the war, Hiroshima Mon Amour has outstanding merit. Every-one should see it at least once--more often if at all possible...