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The Blu-ray also boasts an uncompressed original monaural soundtrack. This is crucial for appreciating the film's innovative score, which is a unique collaboration between two composers: Giovanni Fusco and the legendary French film composer Georges Delerue, who would go on to compose over 500 scores. Delerue's haunting "Valse" is a melancholic piece for piano and strings that serves as the film's aching musical heart, and the uncompressed audio allows its delicate tones to be heard with remarkable clarity and presence.

To understand why this specific 1080p transfer matters, one must revisit the film’s genesis. The producer Anatole Dauman initially commissioned Resnais to make a documentary about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. But Resnais, a documentarian who had already confronted the ghosts of the Holocaust in Night and Fog (1956), knew that a straightforward newsreel would fail. He brought in Marguerite Duras, the novelist of The Lover , to write a script. Duras produced something radical: a script that fused documentary footage of Hiroshima’s ruins with a fictional, obsessive love affair between a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada).

Revoir “Hiroshima” . . . (2013), which details the technical challenges of preserving the film.

Before you watch

Tonight, insomnia had him by the throat. At 2:17 a.m., he clicked it.

The atomic devastation of Hiroshima, the horrific physical aftermath, and the collective global guilt.

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A deep-dive comparison between Resnais' and Godard/Truffaut's Cahiers du Cinéma group .

In traditional 1950s cinema, flashbacks were introduced with a slow dissolve or a musical cue to warn the audience. Resnais throws the viewer into the past instantly. When the French woman looks at her Japanese lover's twitching hand in bed, the film cuts abruptly to a micro-second shot of her dying German soldier's hand. The past is not behind her; it is actively bleeding into her present. The Opening Montage

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The text for in its Criterion Collection 1080p Blu-ray format typically includes the following film specifications and summary details: Film Overview Director: Alain Resnais Screenplay: Marguerite Duras Starring: Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada Release Year: 1959 Genre: Romantic Drama / French New Wave Synopsis

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