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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't had a huge amount of exposure to <em>nouvelle vague</em> films, but what I've seen is so great. On one level it's totally wacked, but on another it's so beautiful and deep and profound and it's all about love and life and living and loving and it's... wow. Just wow.<br/><br/><em>&quot;SHE: ... I meet...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45393696">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Au cours du tournage d'une coproduction sur la paix, une comédienne française noue une relation éphémère mais passionnée avec un Japonais. Sur cette mince intrigue, Duras est chargée par Alain Resnais d'élaborer le scénario et les dialogues d'un film, <em>Hiroshima mon amour</em>, titre étrange et poétique malgré la référence évidente aux atrocités de la guerre. Avec un art de l'ellipse parfaitement maîtrisé, Duras orchestre une danse sensuelle entre deux personnages qui luttent contre le temps. Lui refuse d'admettre que les atrocités d'Hiroshima ont eu lieu, Elle se tait sur son passé ; pourtant, ces fantômes ressurgissent en fragments, lambeaux d'un passé qui se superposent au moment présent. Les corps des amants se confondent peu à peu et Hiroshima se fond dans Nevers, cadre de la jeunesse de l'actrice marquée par l'opprobre parce qu'elle a aimé un jeune Allemand durant la guerre. Les gros plans sur les corps amoureux sont entrecoupés de scènes de foule et de détails d'une crudité sordide, comme si l'horreur devait, elle aussi et malgré tous les films sur la paix, lutter contre le déni pour se faire entendre. <em>--Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Two things brought me back to this book. First, I went to my college reunion and I talked with the professor who taught this book. It was in a seminar of French and Francophone literature by/of women. (I took it in English). She hasn't taught it since, which made me both nostalgic and melancholy. Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20120203">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[نمي‌دانم آيا اين كتاب در ايران ترجمه و چاپ شده يا نه؟ اما فيلمي كه از اين كتاب ساخته شد و نويسنده‌ي فيلم‌نامه نيز خود (دوراس) بود را خيلي دوست دارم و جزو فيلم‌هاي مور...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21296161">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[For me Duras is a long poem, in different books as different verses. <br/>تصور می کنم دوراس را هر زنی باید بخواند، و هر مردی. دوراس یک &quot;سیمون دو بوار&quot; دیگری ست، به همان بی پروایی، صلابت و قدرت، ام...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/505857">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[An extraordinary and deeply moving film that retains much of its power since its original release in 1959, Alain Resnais's <em>Hiroshima, Mon Amour</em> is the story of a French woman (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese man (Eiji Okada) who become lovers in the city of Hiroshima, where  the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb to end World War II in the Pacific. Written by Marguerite Duras and juggled, as if by wandering thoughts, in chronology and setting by Resnais, the film reveals the miserable and mortifying experiences of each character during the war and suggests the obvious healing properties of their relationship in the present. An emotional allusion or two can certainly be made with the more recent <em>The English Patient</em>, but nothing can quite prepare one for Resnais's extreme yet intuitively accessible experiments in fusing the past, present, and future into great sweeps of subjectively experienced memory. Yet audiences have never had trouble relating to this bold milestone of the French New Wave, largely because at its heart is a genuinely affecting, soulful love story. <em>--Tom Keogh</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[As always, crossing media lines is tough territory. I enjoyed the movie much more than Duras' interpretation and adaptation of the events in the movie. <br/><br/>To keep it as short as possible, I have the book four stars for its absolutely beautiful language - Duras is clearly a skilled writer. H...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43001606">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[though the movie has some remarkable images and is from my favorite director, the book is magical and tragically sad!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[You need to see the film in addition to reading this because the descriptions don't do the story justice without seeing it. (Contains film footage of the aftermath of the nuclear bomb in Hiroshima.)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This text is so rich in its multilayered contemplation on memory, loss, and love- I could not stop thinking about it. I so deeply felt for the female protagonist as she struggled as her words failed to capture the intimacy of experience, which I relished even more as I found myself failing to articu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21713199">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[filmeesh 1 chizew vahshatnakie choon kare  allen renas dige]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[for the screenplay to the haunted/ing movie.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this blew my mind as a 21 year old.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Tremur. Imagini socante ale mortii. Si simpla dezamagire ca dragostea nu te-a ucis.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautifully written, as I anticipated, and an excellent film. I love how Duras describes the opening sequence as an &quot;operatic exchange&quot;. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first piece of literature that I read IN FRENCH!  I loved it so much and the thrill of finally being able to read such works in their original form, it inspired me to minor in French and then live and study in Paris for 4 months in 2000.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a rich read focusing on the often unexpressable emotions that are love, life, and loss. Duras attempts the difficult task of expressing these emotions and the pull have on us in this novel.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A so/so love story. The film is pretty much a drawn-out version of Days Of Our Lives. I would recommend The Lover-it's much better.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very vague... I think this is one of the few books BETTER as a film.  &quot;Read after watching the movie&quot; is my advice.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[An extraordinary and deeply moving film that retains much of its power since its original release in 1959, Alain Resnais's <em>Hiroshima, Mon Amour</em> is the story of a French woman (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese man (Eiji Okada) who become lovers in the city of Hiroshima, where  the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb to end World War II in the Pacific. Written by Marguerite Duras and juggled, as if by wandering thoughts, in chronology and setting by Resnais, the film reveals the miserable and mortifying experiences of each character during the war and suggests the obvious healing properties of their relationship in the present. An emotional allusion or two can certainly be made with the more recent <em>The English Patient</em>, but nothing can quite prepare one for Resnais's extreme yet intuitively accessible experiments in fusing the past, present, and future into great sweeps of subjectively experienced memory. Yet audiences have never had trouble relating to this bold milestone of the French New Wave, largely because at its heart is a genuinely affecting, soulful love story. <em>--Tom Keogh</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Will always be in my top 5. Life-changing. Beautiful. The movie will also always be in my top 5. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this is actually a screenplay, but i read it in my french class: 20th century drama....so there]]></body>
    
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