Hiroshima Mon Amour

Elle

Lui

Mother

Father

German Lover

This film pioneered the use of jump cutting to and from a flashback, and of very brief flashbacks to suggest obtrusive memories.

Eiji Okada (playing Lui) did not know any French and was coached in pronouncing each syllable and memorized that order.

This started life as a documentary about the nuclear bomb drop on Hiroshima until Alain Resnais decided to include fictional elements.

When Elle leaves the hotel to go the set, she is wearing a nurse's uniform with a headscarf and carrying a black handbag. When Lui meets her on the set, she is now wearing a skirt and blouse and still has the headscarf. When they leave the set, the headscarf is left behind. When they get to Lui's house, she now has a white jacket.

After they leave the teahouse, a shot from the side shows Lui standing behind Elle to her left with a gap of about a foot and a half. The next frontal shot shows him standing directly behind her with only a small gap between them.

Elle: All these years I've been looking for an impossible love.

Elle: They make advertisements for soap. Why not for peace?

Elle: I have dubious morals, you know.