Muriel, ou, le temps d'un retour / Anatole Dauman présente ; scénario et dialogues, Jean Cayrol ; réalisation, Alain Resnais ; une co-production Argos Films, Alpha Productions, Eclair, Les Filmes de la Pléiade et Dear Films (Rome).
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Nita Klein, Jean-Baptiste Thierrée, Claude Sainval, Laurence Badie, Jean Champion, Jean Dasté. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1963. Wide screen (1.66:1). Special features: Une approche d'Alain Resnais, révolutionnaire discret [excerpt from the 1980 documentary ] ; L'invité du dimanche [excerpt from a 1969 interview with actor Delphine Seyrig] ; Discorama [interview with composer Hans Werner Henze from 1963] ; François Thomas [new 2016 interview with film scholar, author of L'atelier d'Alain Resnais] ; Trailer -- Insert includes essay by film scholar James Quandt.
Summary:
The past of an antique shop owner and widow in Boulogne-sur-Mer 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.
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