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Muriel, or the Time of Return

6.9 117 mins Drama   1963
Alpha Productions   Argos films  
Director(s): Alain Resnais

Release Date: 01 Tue, Oct 1963

In the seacoast town of Boulogne, antique furniture saleswoman Hélène lives with her stepson, 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 past is 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.

Casts of Muriel, or the Time of Return

Delphine Seyrig

as Hélène Aughain

Jean-Pierre Kérien

as Alphonse Noyard

Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée

as Bernard Aughain

Nita Klein

as Françoise

Claude Sainval

as Roland de Smoke

Laurence Badie

as Claudie

Martine Vatel

as Marie-Dominique, aka Marie-Do

Jean Champion

as Ernest

Jean Dasté

as L'homme à la chèvre / The Goat Man

Julien Verdier

as Le loueur de chevaux / The Stableman

Nelly Borgeaud

as La femme du couple d'acheteurs

Catherine de Seynes

as Angèle

Gaston Joly

as Antoine, le tailleur

Gérard Lorin

as Marc

Françoise Bertin

as Simone

Wanda Kérien

as La cliente

Jean-Jacques Lagarde

as L'employé du casino

Laure Paillette

as La cliente dans la rue

Robert Bordenave

as Le croupier

Yves Vincent

as ... L'homme du couple d'acheteurs

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