Hiroshima, mon amour (1959), directed by Alain Resnais “A brilliant, trying picture, at once sensitive and blunt, tender and savage, fleshy and spiritual, pacifist and politically realistic, it has something for everybody.” Norman N. Holland Two Films on Flesh Alain Resnais, coming from documentary cinema, transformed history into an intimate meditation on memory. Working with Marguerite Duras, he crafted a script that lets past and present flow into each other, and the black-and-white cinematog