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...beautiful but bookish adaptation of Francois Mauriac's 1927 novel owes a lot to the pellucid performance of Emmanuèle Riva (star of Hiroshima, Mon Amour) as a bored young provincial wife who tries to do away with her husband...
...chorus of commiseration. As Big Ben tolled every minute for one hour (a gesture normally reserved for deaths in the royal family), Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home said: "There are times when the mind and the heart stand still." From Sir Winston Churchill came a statement: "This mon strous act has taken from us a great statesman and a wise and valiant...
...novel Thérèse Desqueyroux and tells it in old-fashioned cinematic style. It is literate, formal, filmed with impeccable taste. It captures the dark spirit of Mauriac's novel almost too perfectly. Best of all, in Emmanuèle Riva (star of Hiroshima, Mon Amour) it has a vivid Thérèse, that young woman so desperate to escape "the slow, sure, horrible suffocation of provincial life" that she poisons her husband...
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...
...mon, Andy, just for daft...