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Behind her, sometimes as far as one reel back, a man (Marcello Mastroianni? Alain Delon? Eiji Okada?) appears. He is doing The Walk. His hands are sometimes in his pockets; sometimes one hand is in one pocket (curiously, two hands are never in one pocket, nor is one hand ever in two pockets). He may or may not be following the woman-it is almost impossible to tell because he, like she, seems in no hurry. The director (Michelangelo Antonioni? Alain Resnais? Federico Fellini? Francois Truffaut?) is definitely in no hurry. The movie (La Notte? L'Av-ventura...
...Kenzo Okada...
...psychological nuances of the plot are even more important than the actual order of episodes. As in other New Wave films, motives are never clear; the power of individual scenes always suggests uniting logic without really convincing the viewer that the logic even exists. Emmanuelle Riva and Eija Okada act with such persuasive emotion that the film is unified by their mere presence...
...brainchild of Chase Manhattan's personable president, David Rockefeller, 45, the new building unmistakably bears the Rockefeller touch. To decorate it, Rockefeller sparked the purchase of $500,000 worth of art, ranging from African primitives to a rectangle of muted colors by Abstractionist Kenzo Okada. In Rockefeller's private washroom hangs a color lithograph by Cezanne...
Resnais has not allowed the dominant pacifist theme to obscure the nature of the characters themselves, and he builds the character of the girl with especial care, using a 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...