Hiroshima mon amour
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Hiroshima mon amour is a landmark 1959 French New Wave film directed by Alain Resnais that blends a love story with meditations on memory, trauma, and the aftermath of the atomic bombing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hiroshima mon amour canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2172607 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hiroshima mon amour Context triple: [French New Wave, notableWork, Hiroshima mon amour]
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A.
Bande à part
Bande à part is a 1964 French New Wave crime drama film by Jean-Luc Godard, celebrated for its playful style, iconic dance scene, and unconventional approach to genre.
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B.
Last Tango in Paris
Last Tango in Paris is a controversial 1972 erotic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, noted for its explicit sexual content and psychological intensity.
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C.
Belle de Jour
Belle de Jour is a 1967 French drama film directed by Luis Buñuel, renowned for its surreal exploration of a bourgeois housewife who secretly works as a high-class prostitute.
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D.
That Obscure Object of Desire
That Obscure Object of Desire is a 1977 surrealist drama film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel that explores obsessive desire and the impossibility of truly possessing another person.
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E.
La Vie en rose
"La Vie en rose" is a classic French song, originally made famous by Édith Piaf, that became one of Louis Armstrong’s signature romantic jazz standards through his celebrated interpretation.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hiroshima mon amour Target entity description: Hiroshima mon amour is a landmark 1959 French New Wave film directed by Alain Resnais that blends a love story with meditations on memory, trauma, and the aftermath of the atomic bombing.
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A.
Bande à part
Bande à part is a 1964 French New Wave crime drama film by Jean-Luc Godard, celebrated for its playful style, iconic dance scene, and unconventional approach to genre.
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B.
Last Tango in Paris
Last Tango in Paris is a controversial 1972 erotic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, noted for its explicit sexual content and psychological intensity.
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C.
Belle de Jour
Belle de Jour is a 1967 French drama film directed by Luis Buñuel, renowned for its surreal exploration of a bourgeois housewife who secretly works as a high-class prostitute.
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D.
That Obscure Object of Desire
That Obscure Object of Desire is a 1977 surrealist drama film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel that explores obsessive desire and the impossibility of truly possessing another person.
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E.
La Vie en rose
"La Vie en rose" is a classic French song, originally made famous by Édith Piaf, that became one of Louis Armstrong’s signature romantic jazz standards through his celebrated interpretation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French New Wave film
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film ⓘ |
| award |
FIPRESCI Prize
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surface form:
FIPRESCI Prize at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival
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| basedOn | original screenplay by Marguerite Duras ⓘ |
| character |
French actress
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Japanese architect ⓘ |
| cinematicMovement | French New Wave ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Sacha Vierny ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| criticalReception | acclaimed ⓘ |
| dialogueLanguage |
French
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
| director | Alain Resnais ⓘ |
| discusses |
collective memory
ⓘ
individual memory ⓘ |
| distributor |
Pathé
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surface form:
Pathé Consortium Cinéma
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| editedBy | Henri Colpi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Hiroshima
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Nevers ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
romantic drama film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| hasBlackAndWhiteColor | black-and-white ⓘ |
| includedInList |
Sight & Sound critics' poll
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surface form:
Sight & Sound greatest films polls
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| influenced | modern art cinema ⓘ |
| leadActor |
Eiji Okada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Emmanuelle Riva ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima
ⓘ
forgetting ⓘ love ⓘ memory ⓘ trauma ⓘ war and its consequences ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Georges Delerue (library music)
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surface form:
Georges Delerue
Giovanni Fusco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | nonlinear narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blend of documentary and fiction
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essayistic voice-over ⓘ innovative use of flashbacks ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| premiereEvent |
Cannes Film Festival
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surface form:
1959 Cannes Film Festival
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| productionCompany |
Argos Films
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Como-Films ⓘ Daiei Film ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1959 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 90 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Marguerite Duras ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | post-World War II era ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Hiroshima ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Franco-Japanese relationship
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atomic bombing of Hiroshima ⓘ |
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Subject: Hiroshima mon amour Description of subject: Hiroshima mon amour is a landmark 1959 French New Wave film directed by Alain Resnais that blends a love story with meditations on memory, trauma, and the aftermath of the atomic bombing.
Referenced by (6)
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