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...language alone. As played by a blond and wild-eyed Giorgio Albertazzi (who was the mysterious lover in Last Year at Marienbad), Rome's Hamlet looks strikingly like the late James Dean. He wears tight slacks and a turtleneck sweater, while the women wear vague gowns of no particular century in an attempt to universalize the audience's sense of time. King Hamlet's ghost is merely an offstage voice from the collective unconscious, but Freud's ghost has the free run of Elsinore: whenever Hamlet delivers a soliloquy, he takes refuge in a large hole...
MURIEL. Though it cannot match the gossamer style of Last Year at Marienbad, this latest work by France's Alain Resnais is an interesting failure, distinguished by the presence of beautiful Delphine Seyrig as a greying widow full of ineffable yearnings for yesteryear...
MURIEL. France's Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Man Amour, Last Year at Marienbad) embarks on an original, ambitious but ultimately tiresome trip down memory lane, with Marienbad's luminous Delphine Seyrig in brilliant form as an aging widow who yearns to recapture a long-lost love...
Muriel, for all its flaws, is another absorbing exercise in style by Director Alain Resnais, master hand of the new French cinema. Hiroshima, Mon Amour, which wove past and present into a breathless idyl snatched from the ashes of war, was followed by the romantic, enigmatic Last Year at Marienbad. Now, in Muriel, Resnais plunges into the labyrinthine corridors of memory, suggesting much, saying little, rarely glancing behind to see whether his audience is keeping up with him-as not much of it will...
Filmed in blatant color (plenty of raw sienna) in the booming channel city of Boulogne, Muriel delights the eye chiefly in the sentient beauty of Marienbad's Delphine Seyrig. She arrestingly portrays a frightened, fortyish widow who invites her former lover to a reunion after a separation of 22 years. A freeloading weakling and barfly, Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Kerien) arrives from Paris accompanied by a young actress he introduces as "my niece." The girl quickly attaches herself to the widow's melancholy stepson, recently returned from the war in Algeria. Soon the unlikely quartet is caught...