To me it's film which shows the horrors of our branching realities, multiplying at such a rate as to compromise an individual's sense of self.; an evil twin to "Hiroshima Mon Amour", if you will. One of those complex films that benefits soooo much from the multiple viewings that the wonder of DVD technology can provide.
"Some films have been terribly important to me. Alain Resnais’ Muriel, for instance, still haunts me and (perhaps in a dangerous way) my writing" —Gabriel Josipovici, Jewish Quarterly.
The Masters of Cinema series in the UK has a wonderful release of this film if you are able to play R2 dvds, though.
Koch Lorber screws up many videos. New Yorker has the same problem most of the time. This really needs the Criterion treatment as they did with Marienbad last year.