If you loved Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime, try Muriel, or the Time of Return

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Both films are directed by Alain Resnais, and they both carry the bittersweet, outsider, slow burn mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Muriel, or the Time of Return is

Hiroshima Mon Amour if everyone lied. A widow in coastal France deals in antiques as her stepson returns from war, haunted. The arrival of an old flame stirs buried secrets, both personal and political, in a film of deliberate alienation.

If you loved Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime, try Muriel, or the Time of Return

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