Muriel of The Time of Return

In the seacoast town of Boulogne, Hélène sells antique furniture, living with her step-son, Bernard, who's back from military duty in Algiers. An old lover of Hélène's comes to visit - Alphonse - with his niece Françoise; he too is back from Algiers, where he ran a café. Bernard speaks of his fiancée, Muriel, whom Hélène has not met. The narrative, like memory and intention, is jumpy, the past obscured by guilt, misperceptions, and missed possibilities. Appearances deceive, things change. As Hélène and Alphonse try to sort out a renewal, everyone seems off-kilter just enough to hint that all cannot end well. Can anyone know another?

Keywords

  • Cine-Short: 90 Minutes of cinema
  • Timeless
  • Escape to the 60's
  • La Biennale di Venezia !
  • Mostra: The best from the previous years
  • Just released
  • Nouvelle Vague
  • identity

Actors

  • Martine Vatel
  • Catherine de Seynes
  • Laurence Badie
  • Robert Bordenave
  • Wanda Kérien
  • Jean Dasté
  • Delphine Seyrig
  • Françoise Bertin
  • Nita Klein
  • Claude Sainval
  • Jean-Jacques Lagarde
  • Gérard Lorin
  • Jean Champion
  • Yves Vincent
  • Philippe Laudenbach
  • Gaston Joly
  • Nelly Borgeaud
  • Julien Verdier
  • Laure Paillette
  • Jean-Pierre Kérien
  • Jean-Baptiste Thierrée

Director

  • Alain Resnais

Timeless

1h 56min

-10

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France
1963
In the seacoast town of Boulogne, Hélène sells antique furniture, living with her step-son, Bernard, who's back from military duty in Algiers. An old lover of Hélène's comes to visit - Alphonse - with his niece Françoise; he too is back from Algiers, where he ran a café. Bernard speaks of his fiancée, Muriel, whom Hélène has not met. The narrative, like memory and intention, is jumpy, the past obscured by guilt, misperceptions, and missed possibilities. Appearances deceive, things change. As Hélène and Alphonse try to sort out a renewal, everyone seems off-kilter just enough to hint that all cannot end well. Can anyone know another?

In the seacoast town of Boulogne, Hélène sells antique furniture, living with her step-son, Bernard, who's back from military duty in Algiers. An old lover of Hélène's comes to visit - Alphonse - with his niece Françoise; he too is back from Algiers, where he ran a café. Bernard speaks of his fiancée, Muriel, whom Hélène has not met. The narrative, like memory and intention, is jumpy, the past obscured by guilt, misperceptions, and missed possibilities. Appearances deceive, things change. As Hélène and Alphonse try to sort out a renewal, everyone seems off-kilter just enough to hint that all cannot end well. Can anyone know another?


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