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The Bigger Picture film club ? ?Hiroshima Mon Amour? (1959) at East Dulwich Tavern on 27 May 2016


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The Bigger Picture film club has rescheduled and will be showing ?Hiroshima Mon Amour? (1959) at 8pm on Friday, 27 May 2016, Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern.


A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eliji Okada) have an intense affair in post-war Hiroshima. Unable to escape their own personal histories, the affair is both brief and painful as the film interweaves their stories with the memory of momentous and harrowing recent events.


Alain Resnais?s first film, Hiroshima Mon Amour, is one of the most influential films ever made and certainly one of the greatest in the canon of La Nouvelle Vague, a stream of groundbreaking films that came out of France in the late 1950s and early 1960s and transformed cinema. The film discards classical narrative and storytelling by using flashbacks of devastating acts of war that contrast with the deeply intimate love story. The film heralded a new cinematic language which even today challenges the boundaries of cinema.


A masterpiece of great beauty and gravity, its impact lies in the juxtaposition of imagery with the rhythmic and poetic dialogue written by Marguerite Duras and a striking score by Georges Delerue and Giovanni Fusco. Intertwining the impact of personal sorrow and public remembrance, this film offers one of the most haunting evocations of personal suffering, loss and grief and a profound meditation on the horror of war.


Director: Alain Resnais, writer: Marguerite Duras, with Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada


France 90 minutes. Cert 12. Two tickets for the price of one - available on the door. (Tickets are normally ?7.)


Bar opens from 7pm. Film at 8pm.


The Bigger Picture website: http://www.thebiggerpic.co.uk/

The Bigger Picture Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/thebiggerpic?ref=tn_tnmn


Location:

Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern

1 Lordship Lane

London SE22 8EW


Rail: East Dulwich;

Buses: P13, 37, 185, 176, 40, 484

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