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Many of his subsequent efforts seemed to get buried in the fallout from Malcolm X, but in 1997 he produced the outstanding documentary 4 Little Girls, a work that seemed to spur him onto knife-edge films such as Summer of Sam and Bamboozled.   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Appearing hot on the heels of Resnais' arthouse smashes Hiroshima mon amour and Last Year at Marienbad, Muriel failed to attract the same attention as its predecessors, and the film's initial domestic release yielded indifferent box office results. This lukewarm response could perhaps be attributed to Muriel's probing of the still fresh wounds inflicted by the Algerian War, as the French public of the time held little appetite for further discussion of what was widely viewed as a messy, dispiriting conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet time has allowed Muriel to slowly emerge as Alain Resnais' masterpiece, and its exquisite distillation of its director's preoccupations marks it out as the quintessential Resnais film. 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