Muriel, or The Time of Return

feature film, 1963.

DIRECTED BY: Alain Resnais

Muriel, or The Time of Return

CAST:
Delphine Seyrig (Hélène Aughain),
Jean-Pierre Kérien (Alphonse Noyard),
Nita Klein (Françoise),
Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée (Bernard Aughain),
Claude Sainval (Roland de Smoke)

SCRIPT:
Jean Cayrol

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Sacha Vierny

Synopsis:
The film's theme is about coming to terms with unresolved memories and attempting to live a normal life after surviving a war. Hélène lives with her ​​son Bernard, sells antique furniture and pines for a long lost love. Hope returns when she hears the news of her former lover Alphonse's visit, who comes to France after years of living in Algeria. Bernard, on the other hand, cannot come to terms with the events which happened during the war, when he was a soldier in Algeria.

35 mm, color, 117 min

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