The educated audience often uses “art” films in much the same self-indulgent way as the mass audience uses the Hollywood “product,” finding wish fulfillment in the form of cheap and easy congratulation on their sensitivities and their liberalism.

Resnais' visual sense is matched only by such masters of images as Orson Welles or Von Sternberg.

Exquisitely beautiful and harrowing meditation on war and love.

Spans decades while remaining stubbornly in the present tense, the way our own memories ebb and flow according to what we’re feeling in the moment.