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  Hiroshima mon amour (1959) by Pieter Lategan, |_ 24 Feb 2026_| Hiroshima mon amour is one of the most important films in modern cinema because of how it begins — and why that beginning still stays with me after many years. From the very first minutes, the film does something unusual: it doesn’t start like a normal story. Instead of showing a clear scene with characters and setting, it opens with a sequence of images that look like frames placed side by side — a montage of pictures rather than continuous action . These early images include closeups of bodies, ash falling on skin, and repeated fragments of human presence mixed with documentary scenes of Hiroshima after the war. Critics have called this opening “unforgettable” because it doesn’t behave like ordinary film — it behaves more like a kind of visual poem. This opening works not as a single flowing shot, but as a series of juxtaposed moments — each one like a framed idea. The edits jump between past and present, between...