Quarantine Watch #138: Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

This film just feels like a memory. The way it’s edited and paced it just feels like a whisp of smoke dancing in the air inside your head. The documentary-esque shots really effect you. The bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki are such a dark point in humanity. It’s horrible to think about how many innocent people and descendants would be so destroyed. The film allows you to reflect on this. I teared up a few times during these moments. When these two actors come together their love really radiates off the screen. You really feel these people are so deeply in love with each other. The actors are truly magnetic. They are both good looking, but not so overt where it feels like they are too perfect. The moment when she stares down the camera feels like her eyes penetrated my soul.

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