How Do You Film the Atomic Bomb?

Alain Resnais's Hiroshima Mon Amour returns to cinemas — a quiet revolution in filmmaking that blends love, loss, and the long shadow of human destruction. Hosts Kiriko Mechanicus and Elliot Bloom unpack why this haunting classic still matters today. Why did Resnais turn to fiction after his devastating Holocaust documentary Night and Fog? And what does the film reveal about the limits of representation — what cinema can and cannot show of the catastrophic — that makes it as urgent now as it was in 1959?

By Kiriko Mechanicus

Film Journalist · Celebrating Cinema