Fresh
Under Resnais's direction, the clunky reconstruction of the devastated French town is as central to the action as the characters are, creating a blank and bleak setting for their oblivious chitchat.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Muriel, or the Time of Return
1963 · 1h 57m · NOT RATED
Drama
Directed by
Alain Resnais
Overview
A chamber drama about a widow and her son who live in an antique shop in Boulogne. The widow invites a man whom she loved twenty-two years earlier to visit. Her son is haunted by Muriel, a young woman whose death he may have caused while serving as a soldier in Algeria. As in Resnais' earlier films, memory is deflected, fragmented, enshrined, and imagined.
Director and cast
- Alain Resnais Director
- Delphine Seyrig as Hélène Aughain
- Jean-Pierre Kérien as Alphonse Noyard
- Nita Klein as Françoise
- Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée as Bernard Aughain
- Claude Sainval as Roland de Smoke
- Laurence Badie as Claudie
- Jean Champion as Ernest
- Jean Dasté as L'homme à la chèvre / The Goat Man
- Martine Vatel as Marie-Dominique, aka Marie-Do
- Julien Verdier as Le loueur de chevaux / The Stableman
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A subtle, precise, and wrenching film, shot largely without recourse to the stylistic flourishes that made Resnais' reputation.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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