82-Hiroshima,Mon Amour - Director:Alain Resnais - Cast: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, and Bernard Fresson.

"There are any number of ways of constructing a screenplay, and many ways of filming it. It is evident that Resnais envisages all of them."

-Francois Truffaut-

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"I think that in a few years,in ten,twenty,or thirty years,we will know whether 'Hiroshima Mon Amour' was the most important film since the war,the first modern film of sound Cinema"

-Eric Rohmer-in 1959

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"...Then we can say that the very first thing that stikes you about this film is that it is totally devoid of any cinematic references.You can describe 'Hiroshima' as Faulkner plus Stravinsky,but you can't identify it as such and such a filmmaker plus such and such another"

-Jean-Luc Godard-

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"Hiroshima is a circular film.At the end of the last reel you can easily move back to the first,and so on.'Hiroshima' is a parenthesis in time.It is a film about reflection,on the past and on the present.Now,in reflection,the passage of time is effaced because it is parenthesis within duration.And it is within this duration that 'Hiroshima' is inserted.In this sense Resnais is close to writers like Borges,who has always tried to write stories in such a way that on reaching the last line the reader has to turn back and re-read the story right from the first line to understand what it is about--and so it goes on,relentlessly.With Resnais it is the same notion of the infinitesimal achieved by material means,mirrors face to face,series of labyrinths.It is an idea of the infinite but contained within a very short interval,since ultimately the time of 'Hiroshima' can just as well last 24 hours as one second."

-Jaques Rivette-