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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.
Original Release
09/25/1963
US Release
03/13/2007
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Delphine Seyrig | Hélène Aughain |
Jean-Pierre Kérien | Alphonse Noyard |
Nita Klein | Françoise |
Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée | Bernard Aughain |
Claude Sainval | Roland de Smoke |
Laurence Badie | Claudie |
Jean Champion | Ernest |
Jean Dasté | L'homme à la chèvre / The Goat Man |
Martine Vatel | Marie-Dominique, aka Marie-Do |
Julien Verdier | The Stableman / Le loueur de chevaux |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Delphine Seyrig | Hélène Aughain |
Jean-Pierre Kérien | Alphonse Noyard |
Nita Klein | Françoise |
Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée | Bernard Aughain |
Claude Sainval | Roland de Smoke |
Laurence Badie | Claudie |
Jean Champion | Ernest |
Jean Dasté | L'homme à la chèvre / The Goat Man |
Martine Vatel | Marie-Dominique, aka Marie-Do |
Julien Verdier | The Stableman / Le loueur de chevaux |
Philippe Laudenbach | Robert |
Nelly Borgeaud | La femme du couple d'acheteurs |
Catherine de Seynes | Angèle |
Gaston Joly | Antoine, le tailleur / Antoine the Tailor |
Gérard Lorin | Marc |
Françoise Bertin | Simone |
Wanda Kerien | La cliente |
Paul Chevalier | |
Laure Paillette | La cliente dans la rue |
Robert Bordenave | Le croupier / The Croupier |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Pierre Braunberger | Producer |
Anatole Dauman | Producer |
Carlo Fedier | Producer |
Robert Haggiag | Producer |