in the coming weeks, i'm teaching both the screenplay (by marguerite duras) and the film (by alain resnais) - the film easily falls into my top-5 list. there's nothing quite beautifully filmed, written, and all interwoven in a haunting love story that finds its very force in its eventual unraveling. it had to unravel for it to ever be "an impossible love." but i'm horribly biased. about the film, resnais said, "what has to be filmed is the impossibility of filming it," that somehow you could only "suggest the horror" behind the atrocities of wwii and the hiroshima/nagasaki a-bombings as the moment its reality materialized on screen, it somehow lost its horror. echoing what okada's character says, "[il] me donne un grand désir d'aimer."
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