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Muriel, or The Time of Return (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Delphine Seyrig (Actor), Jean-Pierre Kérien (Actor), Alain Resnais (Director) Rated:
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Genre Drama
Format Subtitled, Widescreen
Contributor Jean-Pierre Kérien, Delphine Seyrig, Alain Resnais, Nita Klein
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 56 minutes

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Alain Resnais s Muriel, or The Time of Return, the director s follow-up to Last Year at Marienbad, is as radical a reflection on the nature of time and memory as its predecessor. The always luminous Delphine Seyrig (Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles) stars as an antique shop owner and widow in Boulogne-sur-Mer, whose past comes back to haunt her when a former lover reenters her life. Meanwhile, her stepson is tormented by his own ghosts, related to his service in France s recently ended war in Algeria. Featuring a multilayered script by Jean Cayrol, and inventively edited to evoke its middle-class characters political and personal realities, the fragmented, emotionally powerful Muriel reminds viewers that the past is always present.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- 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
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar James Quandt

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 4 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 35425802
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Alain Resnais
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 56 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ July 19, 2016
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Nita Klein
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Criterion Collection
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01EIGOFUC
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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  • Nicolas Di Nicola
    5.0 out of 5 stars Muriel Buried In Time
    Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2023
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    Another masterpiece from Alain Resnais
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  • Bruce Kawin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Don't Miss This One
    Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2016
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    An essential disc of Resnais' greatest movie. On blu-ray the print is perfectly sharp, and the colors are true to the original. The supplement includes clips in which Jean Cayrol, the writer, and Delphine Seyrig, the star, speak about the film. This movie has been ignored for decades, and film prints have been hard to find. Criterion has done another amazing job on a vital movie--a really brilliant study of love, war, memory, and time.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2016
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    One of great works by one of the master film makers.
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  • technoguy
    3.0 out of 5 stars Ghost of emotion in the machine of film.
    Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2016
    Having just watched the film I can say it is a brilliantly structured, but flawed masterpiece. It’s an everyday story of the banality of petit- bourgeoise French people’s lives told to the background of the end of the Algerian War and WW2. A magnificent central performance by Dephine Seyrig as Helene, anchors the film emotionally in her desire to renew a love from the past. 'Muriel' explores past trauma through memory, and documentation, as Helene's step-son, Bernard , uses a film he shot in Algeria with his voiceover of memories, using a tape-recorder to relive the experience, about the torture and murder of an Algerian woman, Muriel, which he witnessed with other soldiers who took part. There is an element of music hall ,comic book and allegory as the bounder from the past, Alphonse, returns with his new mistress, disguised as his niece, with his list of tall stories and anecdotes, to win back the heart of Helene. Helene herself uses her apartment as a showroom where she sells furniture, that comes and goes, just like the people who come to buy it.

    Also Boulogne, a town under on-going reconstruction, mixes the old with the new. Mother and son are trapped in a painful past they cannot free themselves from. All the characters are isolated in their separate lives, shown even when they’re in groups. The subjective point of view is synthesised into an objective narrative that is‘nt locked into one person’s consciousness. It portrays the personal pain of several characters by focusing on exteriors: furniture,a half-smoked cigarette, an empty train station. The editing captures the fragmentation and pace of modern life, the music by Henze, captures the alienation of the people. What is frustrating is that the emotional heart of the story is strained through a modernist structure, which is scintillating, but cannot liberate the emotional intelligence.. When Helene draws back a curtain on some badly behaving dinner guests, it’s like Resnais’ exposure of France’s post-war guilt. The battle between style and content is won by the former.
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  • Luke Ulbrich
    5.0 out of 5 stars More than a masterpiece
    Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2018
    This is a beautiful and fragmented depiction of life and love. I think calling this film a masterpiece isn’t saying nearly enough.
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  • ecrutle
    1.0 out of 5 stars French nonsense, masquerading as art
    Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2019
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    Pretentious, disjointed, devoid of continuity throughout the second half, to the point of being ridiculous. The plausibility seemed remote, the characters wandering in bumper car randomness.
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  • Karen Bosch
    4.0 out of 5 stars Vivir de recuerdos
    Reviewed in Spain on December 18, 2020
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    Para una novata como yo en la obra de Alain Resnais, esta película fue un reto para la concentración pero un gusto ir describiendo y uniendo los recuerdos de los personajes. Muchos de ellos sólo mentiras y el verdadero es el crudo recuerdo de Muriel y lo que un grupo de jóvenes hicieron con ella en Argelia.
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  • Aubry
    5.0 out of 5 stars Chef d'oeuvre !
    Reviewed in France on June 25, 2021
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    Quel bonheur de redécouvrir cette oeuvre-phare du cinéma français grâce au magnifique travail de restauration ! Des bonus très intéressants ! Bravo à l'éditeur Potemkine !
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  • MarkusG
    5.0 out of 5 stars Muriel
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 4, 2009
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    I have seen Muriel twice, first on the R1 DVD (Koch Lorber). This later Eureka/MoC R2 release differs by having better picture and a nice booklet. The colors and details are the same, but the aspect is correct on MoC, as the picture is slightly squeezed on the R1. (Also the subtitles on the R1 are yellow, which I find a little disturbing.)

    The picture shows signs of age, it is not especially sharp and rather grainy. But the colors are vivid. Despite this I guess the quality of the transfer is as good as it can get (the R1 shows he same grain). And I watched it on a projector without any problems.

    The Booklet contains two essays, the first (by B.Kite) is more theoretical and a little fluffy, and the other (by Anna Thorngate) sets the film in it's historical context and gives a more straightforward (and better) analysis. As a complement, I can recommend Richard Neuperts excellent book "A History of the French New Wave Cinema", where Muriel is analysed and set in the context of the 'new wave' and Alain Resnais other films.

    Muriel, ou le Temps d'un retour came out 1963, shortly after the end of the algerian war. It takes place in Boulogne, a city which met a lot of destruction in WW2, and then rapidly modernized with big functionalist concrete buildings. Here Helene lives with her son Bernard, in an apartment where "everything is for sale" as Helene works as a antique dealer. They are visited by Alfonse, a lover of Helene since long ago. And Francoise, Alfonse's lover. The film then follows the characters during a period (we don't know for how long). Some themes of this complex film is memory, identity, and fragmentation (Helene's apartment is fragmented, as is the city and actually the relations of the characters and the characters themselves).

    As both essays in the booklet point out, in Muriel Resnais doesn't take the subjective perspective of any of the characters, but rather a "collective point of view". (Thorngate). It's like the action and the characters are viewed through a mind that is zooming in and out and changing location all the time, maybe trying to get a grasp of it all. Sometimes in the film the camera jumps through the city (Boulogne), watches something else (objects, a building) while the characters talk, and sometimes we are shown a sequence of rapid and seemingly random cuts of what is happening to the characters on different locations. Like someone playing fast forward and skipping through chapters of a DVD. Interesting is how when Bernard shows his film from the war, the tempo slows down. Maybe this is the heart of the film. Also, different to Resnais other films Marienbad and Hiroshima, there are no actual flashbacks in time (but maybe some fast-forwarding?).

    Well, this is a complex film with a rich content and a special form that can be seen several times. It's better to see it than read about it. But Muriel is no "easy" film with a clear narrative where everything is explained. If you like french cinema, or like the other films by Resnais, you will probably enjoy this.

    All in all, that MoC have released Muriel, an important piece of cinema and part of the french new wave, on a high quality R2 DVD with a nice booklet is reason to buy. It would have been nice to have some more extra material, some interview with Resnais or commentary, but you can't get everything. Highly recommended to anyone interested in cinema!
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  • LAGARDE
    5.0 out of 5 stars Merveilleuse Delphine Seyrig
    Reviewed in France on December 30, 2019
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    Une merveille de finesse et de tristesse sur arrière-fond de guerre d’Algérie. Pas une ride ou presque. Delphine Seyrig est irremplaçable
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  • Ann B
    4.0 out of 5 stars Très bon film d'auteur
    Reviewed in France on January 21, 2015
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    Très bon film qui aborde le sujet de la guerre d'Algérie de façon indirecte... et qui pousse le spectateur à s'interroger.
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