Providence (1977)
Country: FR/SW
Technical: col 107m
Director: Alain Resnais
Cast: John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, David Warner
Synopsis:
As an author copes with the advancing decrepitude brought by illness, his last book becomes a reproach for the parts of him that still live.
Review:
Mercer's screenplay concerns itself with the frustrated search for a moral language in a (literary) process that, by nature, distorts reality. The author's last subject, his family, is treated with the same contempt as all his previous ones. Like Bergman's Wild Strawberries, a film best seen as the thoughts that go through a man's mind when he is near death; rather amusing as an authorial monologue, though the coda does not quite answer all the questions raised, and the language is a bit over the top. All in all perhaps Resnais's most accomplished film for some while, and with a stunning score by Miklos Rozsa, channelling Debussy.
Country: FR/SW
Technical: col 107m
Director: Alain Resnais
Cast: John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, David Warner
Synopsis:
As an author copes with the advancing decrepitude brought by illness, his last book becomes a reproach for the parts of him that still live.
Review:
Mercer's screenplay concerns itself with the frustrated search for a moral language in a (literary) process that, by nature, distorts reality. The author's last subject, his family, is treated with the same contempt as all his previous ones. Like Bergman's Wild Strawberries, a film best seen as the thoughts that go through a man's mind when he is near death; rather amusing as an authorial monologue, though the coda does not quite answer all the questions raised, and the language is a bit over the top. All in all perhaps Resnais's most accomplished film for some while, and with a stunning score by Miklos Rozsa, channelling Debussy.
Country: FR/SW
Technical: col 107m
Director: Alain Resnais
Cast: John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, David Warner
Synopsis:
As an author copes with the advancing decrepitude brought by illness, his last book becomes a reproach for the parts of him that still live.
Review:
Mercer's screenplay concerns itself with the frustrated search for a moral language in a (literary) process that, by nature, distorts reality. The author's last subject, his family, is treated with the same contempt as all his previous ones. Like Bergman's Wild Strawberries, a film best seen as the thoughts that go through a man's mind when he is near death; rather amusing as an authorial monologue, though the coda does not quite answer all the questions raised, and the language is a bit over the top. All in all perhaps Resnais's most accomplished film for some while, and with a stunning score by Miklos Rozsa, channelling Debussy.