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“Hiroshima, Mon Amour.” Embassy. $29.95. It begins with incantatory dialogue and harsh juxtapositions: documentary views of Hiroshima, intercut with nude limbs embracing in darkness, covered with sweat and ash. Alain Resnais’ feature debut, from a script by Marguerite Duras, had revolutionary impact in 1959. It’s a many-leveled anti-war film in which sexuality and death, love and war, East and West, male and female, past and present constantly collide with each other--producing an astonishing variety of musical and psychological effects. Nowadays it’s fashionable to knock “Hiroshima, Mon Amour”; both its pacifism and hyperpoetic style are often attacked as ‘60s relics. But it’s a landmark film. And a hatred of war should not be dated. Information: (213) 553-3600. ****