MASTERS: ALAIN RESNAIS
Muriel, or The Time of Return
Muriel ou le Temps d'un retour
Director
Alain Resnais
Producer
Anatole Dauman
Cinematographer
Sacha Vierny
Editors
Eric Pluet
Kenout Peltier
Sound
Antoine Bonfanti
1963
France, Italy
115 min
Color
Hélène, a widow who runs an antique business from her own apartment in Boulogne-sur-Mer, is visited by a past lover, Alphonse. Her stepson, Bernard, is tormented by the memory of a girl named Muriel whom he has participated in torturing while doing military service in Algeria.
Born 3 June 1922, is a French film director whose career has extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog) (1955), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.
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