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Sunday, September 05, 2004

I'm in love with Alain Resnais' "Hiroshima mon amour".

The story is this: a french actress visits Hiroshima to make a film about peace, and there she meets a Japanese architect on her second last day and they fall in love.
Except they are both happily married to other people.
We don't know how they meet or even their names.
The first scene is of their naked entwined bodies with ash raining down on them, like in the aftermath of the A-bomb.
She remembers her first love 14 years ago, also an impossible love.
She says she will start to forget him, as with her first love, and there will be other encounters after him.
They walk aimlessly round Hiroshima till the day breaks on her last day there. They part company and still she wanders back to find him. But when she finds him, she leaves him and he trails her again.
He asks her to stay, even just a few days more, and she says there is no point.
And yet they can't part.
Or do they?

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