Muriel (1963)

Director
Alain Resnais

Main cast
Delphine Seyrig; Jean-Pierre Kérien; Nita Klein; Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée; Claude Sainval

Genres
Drama

Description
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.


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