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Muriel (1963) by Alain Resnais

Sunday, October 23, 1983, 7:30 pm

Alain Resnais’ Muriel

SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE

800 Chestnut Street

San Francisco, CA, 94133

Muriel…attempts to do what both Hiroshima, Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad did. It tries to deal with substantive issues – the Algerian War, the OAS, the racism of the colons — even as Hiroshima dealt with the bomb, pacifism, and collaboration. But it also, like Marienbad, attempts to project an abstract drama.”  Susan Sontag.

Rarely shown, Muriel is considered by many as Resnais’ most complex film. The intricate editing technique and the film’s portrayal of its memory riddled characters through undramatic episodes of reminiscence make this one of his most haunting works.