Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
A middle-aged widow, living with her stepson, reunites with an old flame, and both grow increasingly haunted by their own past. Meanwhile, the stepson, a former soldier, is troubled by the memory of a girl named Muriel who he met while deployed in the Algerian War.
A middle-aged widow, living with her stepson, reunites with an old flame, and both grow increasingly haunted by their own past. Meanwhile, the stepson, a former soldier, is troubled by the memory of a girl named Muriel who he met while deployed in the Algerian War.
A richly nuanced drama of memory and history, this enigmatic masterpiece was Alain Resnais’s overwhelming follow-up to Last Year at Marienbad. A tale of personal and political hauntings starring the magnificent Delphine Seyrig, Muriel is as breathtakingly edited as it is emotionally devastating.