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cinéma FRANCOPHONE cinema: Hiroshima mon amour (dir. Alain Resnais, 1959)

October 15, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
$11 – $14
Poster for Eric Fillion's curated series of Francophone cinema at the Bookshelf, featuring black text and sponsor logos on a white/grey background. A screenshot from each of the four films is present at the left side of the image.

IICSI Director Dr. Eric Fillion is curating a special Francophone Cinema film series at The Bookshelf Cinema (41 Quebec Street, Guelph). These French-language films (with English subtitles) push the boundaries of cinematic convention to explore urgent, timely topics. Intended for Francophiles and cinephiles alike, the fall 2025 program brings together a brilliant constellation of politically minded artists that straddled the line between cinema and literature amid turbulent times (1940s—1960s), voicing their opposition to war, imperialism, and the spectre of fascism while also enacting and articulating their vision for a better, more just and equitable society. 

The second film in the series will be Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima mon amour (1959). See the film synopsis and specifications below. We hope to see you there for the October edition of this exciting monthly film series!

Poster for Hiroshima mon amour featuring a black and white image of a man and embracing a woman's shoulders from behind as she looks down and to her right. The background is white with the red rising sun of the Japanese flag. Black and white text contains the title and credits.Hiroshima mon amour
Director: Alain Resnais
Year: 1959
Country: France
Running Time: 90 minutes

A cornerstone of the French New Wave, the first feature from Alain Resnais 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 mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories oflove and suffering. With an innovative flashback structure and an Academy Award–nominated screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima mon amour is a moody masterwork that delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish.

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