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You Saw Nothing in Hiroshima
By Richard BrodyApril 9, 2009
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On Sunday afternoon, after presenting the first episode of Jean-Luc Godard’s magisterial “Histoire(s) du Cinéma” at YIVO, in the context of a series called “Picturing the Shoah: Representations of the Holocaust in Cinema,” I spoke with a young film student who suggested that the 1959 film “Hiroshima Mon Amour,” directed by Alain Resnais and written by Marguerite Duras, was an important model for Godard’s approach to history. We talked for a while about that film and its reception—and lo and behold, this week I received a copy of a new book from France, “Tu n’as rien vu à Hiroshima” (“You Saw Nothing in Hiroshima”), edited by Marie-Christine de Navacelle, which was just published by Gallimard in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the film’s release. The book (which takes its title from a famous line from the movie) reconstructs the production of the film, and the experience of filming in Japan, from several different perspectives. Photographs by the lead actress, Emmanuelle Riva, and excerpts from the notebooks of the script supervisor, Sylvette Baudrot, are joined by Alain Resnais’s fascinating letters to Marguerite Duras, an interview with Riva, an essay by Dominique Noguez that situates the film in French history and cinema, and another by the art historian Chihiro Minato about the reception of the film in Japan. (One notable detail is Resnais’s account of sitting in a hotel room and listening to a tape-recorded “letter” from Duras while working out a storyboard by means of “two articulated wooden dolls.”) The book is a delight to peruse as well as to behold; I hope it finds an English-language publisher.)
Richard Brody, a film critic, began writing for The New Yorker in 1999. He is the author of “Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard.”
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Tu n'as rien vu à Hiroshima Paperback – 26 Mar. 2009
by Chihiro Minato (Author), & 2 more
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
128 pages
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Quatrième de couverture
Le 28 juillet 1958, le cinéaste Alain Resnais partait au Japon tourner l'essentiel de ce qui allait devenir un film mythique de l'histoire du cinéma : Hiroshima mon amour. C'est son premier long-métrage et le premier scénario de l'écrivain Marguerite Duras. Le cinquantième anniversaire de ce tournage historique est l'occasion de proposer un regard nouveau sur ce film à travers des textes de Chihiro Minato, Marie-Christine de Navacelle, Dominique Noguez, et aussi d'un entretien avec Emmanuelle Riva. Un remarquable ensemble de photographies, qu'elle a prises avant le tournage, de la ville d'Hiroshima, de ses habitants et surtout de ses enfants, est présenté pour le première fois. Ces images exceptionnelles éclairent le film comme elles éclairent la résurrection, treize ans après le drame du 6 août 1945, de la première ville frappée par la bombe atomique. À ces documents s'en ajoutent d'autres, tout aussi rares, des lettres d'Alain Resnais à Marguerite Duras, des photos du tournage, des pages du journal et des carnets de la scripte, Sylvette Baudrot.
Biographie de l'auteur
Dominique Noguez est l'auteur d'une trentaine d'essais et romans, dont Les Martagons qui obtient le prix Roger-Nimier en 1995 (Gallimard), Amour noir le prix Femina en 1997 (Gallimard) et Une année qui commence bien le prix Jean-Jacques-Rousseau en 2014 (Flammarion). En 2017, il publie Causes joyeuses et désespérées (Albin Michel) et se voit attribué le Prix d'Académie pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre.
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Publisher : Gallimard
Publication date : 26 Mar. 2009
Language : French
Print length : 128 pages
ISBN-10 : 2070122980
ISBN-13 : 978-2070122981
Item weight : 568 g
Dimensions : 21 x 1.3 x 23 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 718,700 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)2,064 in Individual Photographers
3,426 in Photography Collections & Exhibitions
11,172 in Essays, Journals & Letters
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5.0 out of 5 stars Cinema and HiroshimaReviewed in France on 16 June 2009
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A wonderful dive into the years close to the terrible atomic event. Photographs of a luminous and moving sensitivity. Nothing that makes the movie's adventure more sordid. Besides, do we need photos when we say the name of Hiroshima... A wonderful alchemy between Director, Writer and Actors. If you know and love Japan, you can find the sensitive soul and the delicacy of this country there. Moreover, Emanuelle Riva says all this well through the finesse of her photos. And the Resnais-Duras correspondence is up to the task. Marguerite, we miss you again and miss you...
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4.0 out of 5 stars You saw nothing in HiroshimaReviewed in France on 21 February 2014
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A moving book about the side effects of a literary masterpiece with the testimonies of the great actress Emmanuelle Riva
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very beautifulReviewed in France on 19 December 2011
Very beautiful book about a journey inside a story, a film about this magnificent text by Marguerite Duras.
Indispensable to complete your own journey in front of the work.
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5.0 out of 5 stars the coincidences of a masterpieceReviewed in Italy on 30 July 2018
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“Hiroshima mon amour” is undoubtedly an iconic film and this book, which does not claim to be a critical study of the film, manages to show what wonderful coincidences were born. First of all: not the film, nor its director (Alain Resnais), nor the author of the text (Marguerite Duras) are the center of the book, but the photos that the protagonist, Emanuelle Riva, takes in Hiroshima: an actress with a camera in hand collects a series of exceptional images, almost by accident. Around these, a series of documents enrich the reading and reveal us the climate and work that led to the birth of the film.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Historical document of the making of a epoch characterizing movieReviewed in the United States on 28 March 2013
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The book reviewed the presence of the film crew in Japan; with as an additional advantage the personal impressins and the photographs of Emmanuelle Riva
You Saw Nothing in Hiroshima
By Richard BrodyApril 9, 2009
Save this story
On Sunday afternoon, after presenting the first episode of Jean-Luc Godard’s magisterial “Histoire(s) du Cinéma” at YIVO, in the context of a series called “Picturing the Shoah: Representations of the Holocaust in Cinema,” I spoke with a young film student who suggested that the 1959 film “Hiroshima Mon Amour,” directed by Alain Resnais and written by Marguerite Duras, was an important model for Godard’s approach to history. We talked for a while about that film and its reception—and lo and behold, this week I received a copy of a new book from France, “Tu n’as rien vu à Hiroshima” (“You Saw Nothing in Hiroshima”), edited by Marie-Christine de Navacelle, which was just published by Gallimard in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the film’s release. The book (which takes its title from a famous line from the movie) reconstructs the production of the film, and the experience of filming in Japan, from several different perspectives. Photographs by the lead actress, Emmanuelle Riva, and excerpts from the notebooks of the script supervisor, Sylvette Baudrot, are joined by Alain Resnais’s fascinating letters to Marguerite Duras, an interview with Riva, an essay by Dominique Noguez that situates the film in French history and cinema, and another by the art historian Chihiro Minato about the reception of the film in Japan. (One notable detail is Resnais’s account of sitting in a hotel room and listening to a tape-recorded “letter” from Duras while working out a storyboard by means of “two articulated wooden dolls.”) The book is a delight to peruse as well as to behold; I hope it finds an English-language publisher.)
Richard Brody, a film critic, began writing for The New Yorker in 1999. He is the author of “Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard.”
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by Chihiro Minato (Author), & 2 more
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
128 pages
Product description
Quatrième de couverture
Le 28 juillet 1958, le cinéaste Alain Resnais partait au Japon tourner l'essentiel de ce qui allait devenir un film mythique de l'histoire du cinéma : Hiroshima mon amour. C'est son premier long-métrage et le premier scénario de l'écrivain Marguerite Duras. Le cinquantième anniversaire de ce tournage historique est l'occasion de proposer un regard nouveau sur ce film à travers des textes de Chihiro Minato, Marie-Christine de Navacelle, Dominique Noguez, et aussi d'un entretien avec Emmanuelle Riva. Un remarquable ensemble de photographies, qu'elle a prises avant le tournage, de la ville d'Hiroshima, de ses habitants et surtout de ses enfants, est présenté pour le première fois. Ces images exceptionnelles éclairent le film comme elles éclairent la résurrection, treize ans après le drame du 6 août 1945, de la première ville frappée par la bombe atomique. À ces documents s'en ajoutent d'autres, tout aussi rares, des lettres d'Alain Resnais à Marguerite Duras, des photos du tournage, des pages du journal et des carnets de la scripte, Sylvette Baudrot.
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filmmaker Alain Resnais left for Japan to shoot the bulk of what would become a legendary film in the history of cinema: Hiroshima mon amour. It was his first feature film and the first screenplay by writer Marguerite Duras. The fiftieth anniversary of this historic shoot is an opportunity to offer a new perspective on this film through texts by Chihiro Minato, Marie-Christine de Navacelle, Dominique Noguez, and also an interview with Emmanuelle Riva. A remarkable collection of photographs, which she took before filming, of the city of Hiroshima, its inhabitants and especially its children, is presented for the first time. These exceptional images illuminate the film as they illuminate the resurrection, thirteen years after the tragedy of August 6, 1945, of the first city hit by the atomic bomb. In addition to these documents, there are other equally rare ones: letters from Alain Resnais to Marguerite Duras, photos from the filming, pages from the diary and notebooks of the script supervisor, Sylvette Baudrot.
Biographie de l'auteur
Dominique Noguez est l'auteur d'une trentaine d'essais et romans, dont Les Martagons qui obtient le prix Roger-Nimier en 1995 (Gallimard), Amour noir le prix Femina en 1997 (Gallimard) et Une année qui commence bien le prix Jean-Jacques-Rousseau en 2014 (Flammarion). En 2017, il publie Causes joyeuses et désespérées (Albin Michel) et se voit attribué le Prix d'Académie pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre.
Product details
Publisher : Gallimard
Publication date : 26 Mar. 2009
Language : French
Print length : 128 pages
ISBN-10 : 2070122980
ISBN-13 : 978-2070122981
Item weight : 568 g
Dimensions : 21 x 1.3 x 23 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 718,700 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)2,064 in Individual Photographers
3,426 in Photography Collections & Exhibitions
11,172 in Essays, Journals & Letters
Customer reviews:
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
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Frederic Simon
5.0 out of 5 stars Cinema and HiroshimaReviewed in France on 16 June 2009
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A wonderful dive into the years close to the terrible atomic event. Photographs of a luminous and moving sensitivity. Nothing that makes the movie's adventure more sordid. Besides, do we need photos when we say the name of Hiroshima... A wonderful alchemy between Director, Writer and Actors. If you know and love Japan, you can find the sensitive soul and the delicacy of this country there. Moreover, Emanuelle Riva says all this well through the finesse of her photos. And the Resnais-Duras correspondence is up to the task. Marguerite, we miss you again and miss you...
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4.0 out of 5 stars You saw nothing in HiroshimaReviewed in France on 21 February 2014
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A moving book about the side effects of a literary masterpiece with the testimonies of the great actress Emmanuelle Riva
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Esso
4.0 out of 5 stars Very beautifulReviewed in France on 19 December 2011
Very beautiful book about a journey inside a story, a film about this magnificent text by Marguerite Duras.
Indispensable to complete your own journey in front of the work.
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5.0 out of 5 stars the coincidences of a masterpieceReviewed in Italy on 30 July 2018
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“Hiroshima mon amour” is undoubtedly an iconic film and this book, which does not claim to be a critical study of the film, manages to show what wonderful coincidences were born. First of all: not the film, nor its director (Alain Resnais), nor the author of the text (Marguerite Duras) are the center of the book, but the photos that the protagonist, Emanuelle Riva, takes in Hiroshima: an actress with a camera in hand collects a series of exceptional images, almost by accident. Around these, a series of documents enrich the reading and reveal us the climate and work that led to the birth of the film.
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SUN Chi Kong, Sylvian
5.0 out of 5 stars Five StarsReviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 October 2016
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Excellent. A+++
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Dr Antoine Keyser
4.0 out of 5 stars Historical document of the making of a epoch characterizing movieReviewed in the United States on 28 March 2013
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The book reviewed the presence of the film crew in Japan; with as an additional advantage the personal impressins and the photographs of Emmanuelle Riva
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