Muriel (1963)
- Original title
- Muriel, ou le Temps d'un retour
- Directed by
- Brett Kelly, Alain Resnais
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- France, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 197 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A middle-aged widow in Boulogne-sur-Mer lives with her stepson who recently returned from fighting in Algeria. An old lover visits with his new young girlfriend, stirring up memories and tensions from the past.
contemplativemelancholicfragmentedsubduedtensedisturbingintrospectiveslow-burn
What happens
Muriel (French: Muriel ou le Temps d'un retour, literally Muriel, or the Time of a Return) is a 1963 French psychological drama film directed by Alain Resnais, and starring Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée, and Nita Klein. Its plot follows a middle-aged widow in Boulogne-sur-Mer and her stepson—recently returned from military service in the Algerian War—who are visited by her ex-lover and his new young girlfriend. It was Resnais's third feature film, following Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and Last Year at Marienbad (1961), and in common with those films it explores the challenge of integrating a remembered or imagined past with the life of the present. It also makes oblique reference to the controversial subject of the Algerian War, which had recently been brought to an end. Muriel was Resnais's second collaboration with Jean Cayrol, who had also written the screenplay of Night and Fog (1956). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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