Does anyone know of a more beautiful movie? I have seen thousands of movies, and yet whenever I try to picture visual poetry, "Hiroshima Mon Amour" always comes to mind first. I just can't picture anything else taking it place as a mental prototype.
AK-47. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every mofo in the room, accept no substitutes.
About the only ones that I can think of that come close (and each is in a completely different way) are Prospero's Books and Les Amants du Pont-neuf. The former certainly doesn't exhibit a calm beauty which I'm sure must be deliberately ironic given the locale and subtext. The latter reminds me of Maurice Ravel's Bolero in that the beauty crescendos. It actually starts of with some scenes that are quite ugly and then beauty and romance appear and intensify.
shareIn terms of visual beauty, I've seen examples of cinematography that left me breathless: Il Conformista, Ryan's Daughter, Witness.
But regarding the emotions derived from the human relationships, Hiroshima mon amour is special. Such a simple, honest, heartbreaking love story between two human beings.
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Cinephile
I have seen many stirring visual poems like this (many have mentioned Days of Heaven) but none as devastatily moving for all the right reasons. This is the film I would most like to have seen on a big screen with a restored print. Maybe some day ...
Hiroshima Mon Amour is certainly among the most beautiful and haunting movies I have ever seen. My favourite aspect of the movie is the almost incessant voice-over. It's almost like listening to a poem while visiting a museum to see a wonderful set of paintings. The opening sequence where she describes the devastation of Hiroshima through her visits to the hospital and the museum was a most wonderful crafted portion. I also like to think that the theme of forgetfulness that runs through the movie refers is not just that at a personal level, but also includes the collective forgetfulness of the humanity and the blissful state of oblivion in which we live. But at the same time Resnais is not condemning the oblivion. It's one of the factors that make the human condition more bearable.
In terms of beauty and sensitivity, I like Kieslowski's movies especially Dekalog series and The Three Colours trilogy. Beauty-wise Amelie is also one of my all time favourites, the way that movie constructed a dreamscape out of Paris.
Krzysztof Kieslowski, Andrei Tarkovsky, F.W. Murnau and of course Jean Vigo's L'Atalante. Period.
"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle"
I would not go far as to say it is a more beautiful film, but I believe Contempt (1963) deserves a honorable mention.
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I fell in love with this movie when I first saw it in 1960 when I was 18 years old. To me it is ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FILMS EVER MADE. EMMANUELLE RIVA WAS BEAUTIFUL. SHE STILL IS AT AGE 85.
I was watching the awards for THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2012 and noticed that the Movie: " AMOUR," starring her and Jean Luis Tringtinan, directed by Michale Haneke won PALM D'ORE FOR THE BEST PICTURE AND I SAW A PHOTO OF HER AT THE CEREMONY AND SO HAPPY.
Have seen it many times and I'm going to look for it to see it again.
Jubinne
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FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
A lot of critics hate it, I know - but what the hell? I love it!
The Dorset countryside, the market scenes, the dog chasing the sheep over the cliff, the swordfighting 'lesson' on the hill fort, Julie Christie, all ravishingly beautiful.
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
For many of the same reasons. The locations, the deliberate pace, the framing, the score, the haunting final image of Miranda.... stunningly beautiful.