Abstract
Ode to love and requiem for war, the incantatory threnody of Hiroshima mon amour lulls the senses and the spirit of the spectator grabbed by the literary and cinematographic poesy fruit of the collaboration between the writer Marguerite Duras and the cineaste Alain Resnais. Rewarded for its release by the Prix International de la Critique during the Festival de Cannes as well as the Prix Méliès, the masterpiece has not always been judged for its true worth since the commentators have often restricted their interpretation to the intrigue of love. We will proceed to a filmic analysis in which we will point out the veritable themes of the movie (1.) before effectuating a cinematographic analysis in which we will expose the different techniques used to accentuate the play of contrasts that shows beneath the entire work (2.). Eventually, we will work on a theoretical analysis in which we will collate the various texts discussed during the course to complement the books and articles that deal with the same dialectic between memory and oblivion (3.).
