Muriel, Or the Time of Return [Criterion Collection]

Director: Alain Resnais Alain Resnais

Overview

Alain Resnais's third feature film, like his earlier Hiroshima Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad, is devoted to the vagaries of memory. The title character is seen only in the 8-millimeter films run over and over again by Bernard (Jean-Baptiste Thierée). A veteran of the French/Algerian war, Bernard was obliged to participate in the torture murder of Muriel, an Algerian girl accused of sabotage. He is no more successful at recapturing or altering his past than is his stepmother Helene (Delphine Seyrig), who attempts to rekindle a romance with Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Kerien). Practically everyone else in the cast follows the lead of the leads by dwelling on Things Past to the detriment of the Present. Resnais' scriptwriter on Muriel ou le Temps d'un Retou was Jean Cayrol, whose earlier collaboration with the director yielded the celebrated short subject Night and Fog.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/19/2016
UPC:	0715515181815
Original Release:	1963
Rating:	NR
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:56:00
Sales rank:	30,269

Special Features

Excerpt from the 1980 documentary Une approche d'Alain Resnais, révolutionnaire discret; Excerpt from a 1969 interview with actor Delphine Seyrig; Interview with composer Hans Werner Henze from 1963; New interview with film scholar François Thomas, author of L'atelier d'Alain Resnais; Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Delphine Seyrig	Helene
Jean-Baptiste Thierrée	Bernard
Jean-Pierre Kérien	Alphonse
Nita Klein	Francoise
Jean Dasté	The Goat Man
Jean Champion	Ernest
Claude Sainval	de Smoke
Julien Verdier	The Stableman
Philippe Laudenbach	Robert,Actor
Laurence Badie	Claudie
Martine Vatel	Actor
Gaston Joly	Antoine, the Tailor
Robert Bordenave	Actor
Catherine de Seynes	Angele
Françoise Bertin	Actor
Yves Vincent	Actor
Gerard Lorin	Actor
Jean-Pierre Kerien	Actor
Hans Henze	Composer

Technical Credits

Jean Cayrol

Alain Resnais	Director
Anatole Dauman	Producer
Jean Cayrol	Screenwriter

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Muriel, Or the Time of Return
1. Alphonse ... And Guest [11:13]
2. Auction Room [11:28]
3. Nothing To Hide [15:27]
4. "All These Memories" [11:01]
5. Small Town [8:46]
6. Muriel [4:11]
7. Love Affairs [7:45]
8. All Fall Down [2:13]
9. Scars [6:06]
10. Rendezvous [6:13]
11. Secrets And Confessions [5:31]
12. "Déjà" [6:52]
13. Back And Forth [6:46]
14. Color Bars [12:51]
1. Chapter 1 [26:42]
2. Chapter 2 [:25]

Menu

Disc #1 -- Muriel, Or the Time of Return
   Play The Movie
   Chapters
   Supplements
      Une Approche D'Alain Resnais, Révolutionnaire Discret
      L'Invité Du Dimanche
      Discorama
      François Thomas
         Chapters
      Trailer
   Subtitles