Alain Resnais
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple — lovers turned friends — recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
Takes place in a chateau, an ambiguous story of a man and a woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad.
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler’s concentration camps.