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Muriel Details

1963 Certificate 12
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If cinema has its equivalents to the master modernists of music, painting, or literature, then one of the tradition's foremost practitioners is undoubtedly Alain Resnais — and Muriel, ou le Temps d'un retour (Muriel, or: The Time of a Return) represents one of his earliest, and greatest, triumphs. In Resnais' two preceding .. Read more

Starring Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Nita Klein, Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée
Director Alain Resnais
Genres Drama, World Cinema

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If cinema has its equivalents to the master modernists of music, painting, or literature, then one of the tradition's foremost practitioners is undoubtedly Alain Resnais — and Muriel, ou le Temps d'un retour (Muriel, or: The Time of a Return) represents one of his earliest, and greatest, triumphs. In Resnais' two preceding features (the legendary Hiroshima mon amour and Last Year at Marienbad), the master filmmaker pioneered new ways of representing inner reality and emotion; but with Muriel, he merged the vicissitudes of his characters' personal pasts, and married them to the traumas of the political present — namely, the French war in Algeria.

Resnais' film is the story of the middle-aged Hélène (portrayed by Delphine Seyrig, of Last Year at Marienbad, Truffaut's Stolen Kisses, and Akerman's Jeanne Dielman), an antique dealer located in the provinicial port-town of Boulogne-sur-Mer, who resides amid her wares inside the same flat that serves as her business showroom. Against the backdrop of the past that exists materially in the immediate milieu of the film's action, an old lover of Hélène's comes to visit — and soon takes up a more permanent residence within her life, despite the presence of a suspicious, tortured, and sexualised stepson who is haunted by a woman, a name, from his own past in his time in Algiers: "Muriel".

Scripted by Jean Cayrol, the co-writer of Resnais' landmark early short film Night and Fog, Muriel is one of the great "family films", and stands like a cinema landmark as one of the most complex and rewarding films of the 1960s — the richness of which grows with every viewing.

Starring Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Nita Klein, Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée, Claude Sainval, Laurence Badie, Jean Champion
Director Alain Resnais
Studio EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 51 mins
Certificate Certificate 12
Genres Drama, World Cinema
Language DVD: French
Subtitles DVD: English
Released Production year: 1963

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