MURIEL, OR THE TIME OF RETURN [BLU-RAY] [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1963
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Alain Resnais's Muriel, or The Time of Return, the director's follow-up to Last Year at Marienbad, is as radical a reflection on the nature of time and memory as its predecessor. The always luminous Delphine Seyrig stars as an antique shop owner and widow in Boulogne-sur-Mer, whose past comes back to haunt her when a former lover reenters her life. Meanwhile, her stepson is tormented by his own, ghosts, related to his service in France's recently ended war in Algeria. Featuring a multilayered script by Jean Cayrol and inventively edited to evoke its middle-class characters' political and personal realities, the fragmented, emotionally powerful Muriel reminds viewers that the past is always present.
• Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Nita Klein, Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée, Claude Sainval, Laurence Badie, Jean Champion, Jean Dasté, Martine Vatel, Julien Verdier, Philippe Laudenbach, Nelly Borgeaud, Catherine de Seynes, Gaston Joly, Gérard Lorin, Françoise Bertin, Wanda Kerien, Jean-Jacques Lagarde, Laure Paillette, Robert Bordenave, Yves Vincent, Alain Resnais, Jean Cayrol, Anatole Dauman, Sacha Vierny, Kenout Peltier, Eric Pluet, Hans Werner Henze, Antoine Bonfanti, Jean Nény, Jacques Saulnier
• Director: Alain Resnais
• Runtime: 1:56
• Company: Alpha Productions, Eclair, Les Films de la Pléiade, Dear Film Produzione, Argos films, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie