Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, Japan
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
- new love
- france
- atomic bomb
- return
- lover
- architect
- hiroshima
- japan
- black and white
- family
- extramarital affair
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Bernard Fresson — German Lover
- Directed
- Alain Resnais
- Written
- Marguerite Duras
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 937 ratings
- Studio
- Argos films, Como Films, Daiei Film, Pathé Overseas
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
