Between Living and Surviving, the Encounter of “Hiroshima mon amour”

Abstract

Written by Marguerite Duras and directed by Alain Resnais, the movie “Hiroshima mon amour” is set in the immediate post-war period, precisely in the Japanese city destroyed by the first nuclear bombardment while life is trying to begin again. Considering the immense wounds inflicted on the anonymous people of all nations during the Second World War, the scenario proposes to oppose this unprecedented catastrophe with a romantic encounter in which the authors attempt to identify the irreducibility of affects and feelings as a condition for renewing the living of a fractured humanity that is more sensitive than ever.