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A Study of Memory in Muriel ou le temps d'un retour

The relationship between subjective memory and traumatic history is examined through the postwar cimena of Alain Resnais with a particular focus in Muriel, ou le temps d'un retour. By situating his film in the present, Resnais understand the complexity of memory itself. Indeed, although memory is about what has already passed, there is only temporal key through which memory can be accessed, and that is through the past. Renais utilizes the textual strategies of modernism to examine narrative, temporality and memory in his work, and in doing so, he destabilizes any notion of absolute truth or closure by embracing ambiguity and even contradiction. But it is not just the normal codes of narrative that are put against themselves; such tactics are put against the representation of memory itself. Work on memory, as evidenced in Muriel ou le temps d'un retour, textualizes human and historical discontinuities. The nature of traumatic events of the twentieth century that surpass their own description require a deepened investigation into the nature of event, its inscription to memory and transcription to representation. The otherness of these events requires textualization that fully recognizes its incommensurability. The pervasive air of strangeness to Muriel ou le temps d'un retour; the pressure with which the past disturbs the present; the ambiguity of action and gesture; the interruption of memory; the mark of absences throughout the film display a kind of unknowingness. This is deepened by the indeciphererability of the film style itself. In Muriel ou le temps d'un retour, missing people are embodied through the missing person of the film. Muriel, she is unrepresented and unrepresentbble. She is also nameless. “They tell me her name was Muriel,” Bernard says, “I don't know why, but that couldn't her real name.” But in telling her story, Bernard, at least, begin to give her a name to reinstate her in spite of her absence. In this way Muriel ou le temps d'un retour is a project of naming of inscribing the memory of an absent person.