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Oct 28, 2015voisjoe1_0 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Ranked as one of the top 200 films of all time. Initially it was to be a documentary about the effects of the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, but the director Alain Resnais chose to make it a fictional story with the nuclear bomb as only a part of the film. Pressure was put on the film by the American government to hinder the world's knowledge about the horrible effects of atomic bombs on innocent civilians (the USA is the only country to ever subject humans to this horror). This Criterion Collection release includes discussion of what may have been the first French New Wave film. Viewers left the theatres discussing what might be its meaning.