Hiroshima, Mon Amour / Une Aussi Longue Absence

Hiroshima mon amour ("Hiroshima, My Love") is an intense and focused drama, centering around a conversation between a French-Japanese couple - in this it was similar to Duras' autobiographical work, L'Amant, which tells the story of her affair with a Chinese man. Hiroshima also shares certain thematic qualities with Une Aussi Longue Absence ("The Long Absence"), which also focuses on memory and forgetting, although in Absence, the narrative centers on the owner of a café in a provincial French town, whose husband may have returned after a sixteen year absence, dressed as a tramp.Illustrated with black and white photographs, and stills from the films. Includes the nouvelle vague classic directed by Alain Resnais. Translated by Richard Seaver and Barbara Wright.