SEPTEMBER 5: NOUVELLE VAGUE - 8:40pm

MURIEL, OU LE TEMPS D'UN RETOUR

Alain Resnais (1963) 116 mins

Delphine Seyrig invites her lover from 20 years earlier to stay with her & her stepson. Resnais' deeply philosophical follow-up to Last Year at Marienbad is haunted by the recent past (Algeria, WWII) & features rhythmic dialogue & overlapping sound, visionary use of colour & a fragmented, prismatic narrative giving resonance to a group of characters tortured by personal, social & historical memory. Ethereal modernist score by Hans Werner Henze, & crisp cinematography by Sacha Vierny.

Screens after Le Petit Soldat (7.00pm).

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"Muriel: The Time of Return" - Crissa Jean Chappell

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