Maltin, Leonard. «Alain Resnais». A: Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia. Plume, 1995, p. 744. ISBN 978-0-452-27058-9 [Consulta: 2 setembre 2011]. «Resnais's first 35 mm feature Hiroshima mon amour (1959) — in 1946, he made a 16 mm feature Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire — dealt with the nature of history and memory, and deviated from traditional notions of narrative time as it recounted a fleeting liaison between a French actress and Japanese architect. Its sexual candor and provocative ideas, wedded to a dazzlingly sophisticated visual style, made Hiroshima, Mon Amour the New Wave's The Birth of a Nation and it deservedly won the Cannes Film Festival International Critics Prize.»
