Muriel, or The Time of Return

Synopsis

In the newly rebuilt seaside town of Boulogne-sur-Mer, an antique dealer widow reunites with her former lover from twenty years earlier, while her traumatized stepson is haunted by his memories of torturing a young Algerian girl named Muriel during the Algerian War. Alain Resnais and Jean Cayrol's Venice Best Actress-winning formalist triumph of editing, color, and suppressed political memory.