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独軍の占領下にあったフランスの田舎で敵兵と密通して断罪された過去を持つ女優が、ロケのために広島を訪れ日本人の建築家と一日限りの情事に耽ける。そして知る、広島の悲劇。時あたかも8月6日。原水禁運動を背景に二人の孤独な会話が続く。焦土から奇跡の復興を遂げたその町は、死の影を決して忘れることはない…。
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One of Chris Marker's earliest documentaries (1957) and probably one of his best, the hour-long Letter From Siberia mixes new and found footage with inventive commentary, and is especially memorable for a passage in which footage is repeated while the offscreen commentary transforms its meaning with a different ideological interpretation. It is perhaps the earliest example we have of Marker's inimitable essayistic manner, hence an indispensable work.
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A documentary film about occupational diseases shot in 1957 at the Francolor factory in Oissel. It takes the form of a scientific investigation to discover the origin of a mysterious illness that has infected a worker at the factory.
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Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
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A penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the inhabitants of Sète in the South of France.
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Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous, alien being.
