101 Letters To A Prime Minister (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Harper, For the first time I’m sending you an original screenplay and with it, naturally, the movie that was made from it. Hiroshima Mon Amour was written by Marguerite Duras (1914–1996), who is often associated with the Nouveau Roman literary movement in France, and directed by Alain Resnais (born in 1922), who is often grouped with the French Nouvelle Vague film movement. Nouveau roman, nouvelle vague—that’s the adjective “new” twice. And indeed, Duras and Resnais and their cohorts in the 1950s and ’60s were doing something new in their respective attempts to break from the conventions of the past to better address the needs of the present. Despite dating from half a century ago—the movie was released in 1959—the newness of Hiroshima Mon Amour hasn’t worn off. You’ll see that right away. The movie seems to have all the traits of a staid classic. It’s shot in black and white, the style of the clothes worn by the characters would now be called vintage, the cars seen in the movie are now antiques, and so on.
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