[on
Emmanuelle Riva's performance in
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)] She is unique. It's the first time that we've seen on the screen an adult woman with an interiority and a capacity for reasoning pushed to such a degree. Emmanuelle Riva is a modern adult woman because she is not an adult woman. She is, on the contrary, very childlike, guided by her impulses alone and not by her ideas. Antonioni was the first to show this kind of woman.
