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Muriel, or the Time of Return is a french film of genre Drama directed by Alain Resnais released in USA on 13 october 1963 with Delphine Seyrig
Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 13 october 1963
Length 1h57
Directed by Alain Resnais
OriginFrance
Genres Drama
Rating69%
Muriel (French: Muriel ou le Temps d'un retour, literally Muriel, or the Time of a Return) is a 1963 French film directed by Alain Resnais. It was Resnais's third feature film, following Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and L'Année dernière à 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 Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog) (1955).
Synopsis
Hélène, a widow who runs an antique business from her own apartment in Boulogne-sur-Mer, is visited by a past lover, Alphonse. Her stepson, Bernard, is tormented by the memory of a girl named Muriel whom he has participated in torturing while doing military service in Algeria.Actors
Delphine Seyrig
(Hélène Aughain)
Jean-Pierre Kérien
(Alphonse Noyard)
Jean-Baptiste Thierrée
(Bernard Aughain)
Nita Klein
(Françoise)
Laurence Badie
(Claudie)
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