FREE Friday Night Film

    The Peace Center of Delaware County’s First Friday Free Film Series continues, 7 p.m., Friday, Aug. 5 at 7 p.m. with a showing of “Hiroshima, Mon Amour” (Hiroshima, My Love). The film has a 90 minute running time and is in French with English subtitles. The unrated, black and white film was directed by Alain Resnais, with screenplay by Marguerite Duras.
“Hiroshima, Mon Amour”  is the classic 1959 love story about loss, forgetfulness, memories of World War II, and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Fifteen years after the atomic bombing of  Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, a film crew arrives in Hiroshima to make a film about peace. The film’s actress meets and has a brief affair with a Japanese man she meets the night before her return to France. The two debate memory and forgetfulness, failed relationships, the meaning of the Hiroshima bombing and, in flashback images, recount their pain and anguished memories of war.  
“Hiroshima, Mon Amour” weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish, memory and facing the history that makes us who we are, into a moody masterwork that is also one of the truly landmark films in cinematic history.
For more information and directions, visit http://www.delcopeacecenter.org/ or call 610-544-1818.