Hiroshima mon amour Excerpt 6: At the Café du Fleuve (Riverside Café)—SHE tells her story: the madness, the confinement in the cellar (4’48”)
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Hiroshima mon amour Excerpt 6: At the Café du Fleuve (Riverside Café)—SHE tells her story: the madness, the confinement in the cellar (4’48”)
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| 1. | Interpret the first exchange between the Japanese man and the French woman at the beginning of the excerpt. (Note the use of “tu”—the familiar form of address—later on in this excerpt.) |
| 2. | Why does the French girl, confined to the cellar, scrape her hands on the walls until they bleed? |
| 3. | Why do her parents lock her up in the cellar? |
| 4. | Discuss the contents of the sound track while SHE is in the cellar. (What do we hear, in addition to her voice-over? Why?) |