(Alain Resnais, France 1959, 91 min., French/subtitles)

In Resnais’ celebrated collaboration with writer Marguerite Duras, a married actress (Emmanuelle Riva) making a movie in Japan falls in love with a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) and their affair brings back memories of her first forbidden love during the German occupation of France. This seminal New Wave film introduced exciting new methods of cinematic storytelling.