Today, 5 March, at 8 p.m. as a part of presenting the films of the French New Wave in Sarajevo, film by Alain Resnais ”Muriel” will be shown in Meeting Point Cinema in Sarajevo.
Muriel (Muriel ou le Temps d’un retour) is a 1963 French film that talks about Hélène, a widow who runs an antique business from her own apartment in Boulogne-sur-Mer,and who is visited by a past lover, Alphonse. Her stepson, Bernard, is tormented by the memory of a girl named Muriel whom he has participated in torturing while doing military service in Algeria.
The story takes place over 15 days in September–October 1962. (The screenplay provides specific dates and times for each scene, but these are not apparent in the film.) An extended sequence takes place on the first day (a section lasting about 45 minutes: the introductions of Alphonse and his ‘niece’ Françoise to Hélène and Bernard, and their first meal together). Another long sequence takes place on the last day (the Sunday lunch and its revelations, and the scattering of the principal characters in their different directions). The intervening days are represented in a series of fragmented scenes, which are chronological but seldom consecutive, and the passage of time is blurred.
