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Hiroshima Mon Amour
MEANRANK
82/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #375
- IMDb #633
- Rotten Tomatoes #313
- Letterboxd #322
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #351
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #692
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is AlloCiné on 72, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 96. Critics average 96, everyone else 80.
See the most agreed on films →A French actress filming an anti-war movie in Hiroshima has a brief but intense affair with a Japanese architect. Their passionate encounter becomes a catalyst for her to relive and recount her traumatic first love with a German soldier in Nevers during World War II, exploring memory, war, and forgetting.
Details
- Director
- Alain Resnais
- Writer
- Marguerite Duras
- Studio
- Argos films, Como Films, Daiei Film, Pathé Overseas
- Released
- 10 June 1959
- Country
- France, Japan
- Language
- French, Japanese, English
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Rated
- NR
- Box office
- $3.2K
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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Cast
Awards & nominations
See all 1 →0 wins from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| 33rd Academy Awards 1961 | Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Marguerite Duras | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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1 awards — Hiroshima Mon Amour
×| Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Marguerite Duras | Nominee |