Click here to visit our new site --> CafeDVD 2.0 Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) Rating: Starring: Emmanuelle Riva Director: Alain Resnais Category: Classics, Classics Studio: Criterion Subtitles: English Length: 90 mins     The Criterion Collection, a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films A cornerstone of French cinema, Alain Resnais' first feature is one of the most influential films of all time. A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering. Utilizing an innovative flashback structure and an Academy Award-nominated screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras, Resnais delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish, in this moody masterwork.