Muriel
by Alain Resnais
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Actor: Delphine SeyrigDirector: Alain Resnais
Brand: Koch International
Audio: French (Original Language), Unknown; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Koch Lorber Films
Movie Reviews of Muriel
Movie Review: A challenging examination of the way the past distorts the present
Summary: 5 Stars
MURIEL, the film Alan Resnais made after LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD, is an even more complex exploration of time and memory, but unlike it's predecessor, whose surrealistic canvas allowed the viewer freedom to provide a subjective context, MURIEL is a film with a specific point of view..one that has meaning and relevance to us as humans, but is presented in an unconventional and challenging way. MURIEL requires an open mind and patience on the part of the viewer, and I agree with the reviewer who stated that the film deserves multiple viewings to be fully appreciated. The technique of jump cutting that builds to a crescendo in this film is disorienting and disconcerting on first experience, but the more you see MURIEL, the more you understand why it was done and the pure brilliance and power of it's effectiveness. This is the way our minds process memories and experience life..not in a smoothly coherent, temporally linear fashion, but in an wildly incongruent succession of images and thoughts, that sometimes illuminate or provide insight, but most often, cloud the truth. Taken piecemeal, these visual non sequiturs can be disorienting or confusing, but when placed in proper context, they create a mosaic that is both meaningful and beautiful. MURIEL is a haunting meditation on how we deal with loss..the loss of the innocence and ideals we harbor in our youth after they are ravaged by time and the cruel realities of existence. It's a complex examination of the way in which the past in the form of subjective memories, color our present thought processes and affect our actions. This is a great film with a great performance by it's lead actress Delphine Seyrig. Required viewing for the serious cinephile.
Summary of Muriel
Delphine Seyrig gives an award-winning performance in Alain Resnais hauntingly brilliant masterpiece. Helene (Seyrig) is a widow who sells antiques from the apartment she shares with her eccentric filmmaker stepson, Bernard. Bernard is a veteran of the Algerian War and is haunted by his participation in the torture and murder of a young woman named Muriel.Alain Resnais's 1963 memory film Muriel is a fascinating study of the relationship between the way things are remembered--a blend of fact, dream, and falsification--and the way things really are, with cinema itself the crucial bridge. A woman (Delphine Seyrig), haunted by the memory of her first love, meets up with him again and finds he's a long way from being the man she recalls. Meanwhile, her stepson (Jean-Baptiste Thierr?e) is preoccupied with a torture death he witnessed in Algeria. In the case of the former, the present-day truths about Seyrig's old flame are mitigated and complicated by recollections of his old self, and what develops is a timeless portrait of the character more alive than his current actuality. In the latter, the young man's refusal to loosen the atrocity's grip on his life becomes increasingly fruitless as the tragedy only exists on film--and the world has moved on despite the injustice. A challenging work by Resnais in which perspective rapidly changes, the film nevertheless has a subtle, haunting quality in which the richness of the past and the bluntness of the present obscure one another and must be reconciled on celluloid. --Tom Keogh
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