Time, Space, and Fiction in the Films Muriel or the Time of a Return by Alain Resnais and Paris Belongs to Us by Jacques Rivette
Time, Space, and Fiction in the Films Muriel or the Time of a Return by Alain Resnais and Paris Belongs to Us by Jacques Rivette

Summary/Abstract: The films Muriel or the Time of a Return (1963) by Alain Resnais and Paris Belongs to Us (1961) by Jacques Rivette share a common time and setting – the early sixties years in France, at the height of French New Wave cinema. In both films, the destabilisation of the boundaries between reality and fiction is a central device. Their complex structure is built through a specific handling of time and space in which the narrative flows chronologically, but the past and present merge in paranoid identical patterns, and the spaces remain entirely transitory.

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