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...moviemakers hold matrimony. Unlike Divorce-Italian Style, Marriage -Italian Style, and the other changes that have recently been rung in Italy on the dissolubility of marriage, Hours is not trying to be funny so much as ruefully amusing. And it succeeds fairly well, thanks mostly to French Actress Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima, Mon Amour) and Ugo Tognazzi, one of Italy's busiest actors...
Gianni (Tognazzi) and Maretta (Riva) are lovers and loving it. They love it so much that they get married and move into his apartment in Rome. "Now we can do anything we want!" exults Maretta. "Sing, kiss...
Perhaps your best bet is to follow the heroine's example. Stop worrying and just be absorbed by the bizarre plot, the magic music and camera work, the incantatory script, and Riva's big, hypnotic eyes...
...case in point: the heroine of Hiroshima, played by Emmanuelle Riva. For her, the bombing of Hiroshima was a dreadful example of man's mistreatment of man. It should be unforgettable to everyone. But unfortunately, owing to the elusive disposition of human memory, it isn't. Her solution at film's end: stop worrying about it, accept the affection of Eiji Okada (who has been having as much mnemonic trouble as she) and start...
...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...