
1977
Providence
DIRECTORAlain RESNAIS
AUTHORDavid MERCER
CASTDirk BOGARDE, Ellen BURSTYN, John GIELGUD
SYNOPSISThe film describes the process of literary creation. Part of the plot takes place in the mind of Clive Langham, a celebrated writer who is aware that he is on the point of dying and who, on the eve of his seventy-eighth's birthday, conceives during the night his last novel, where he writes about himself, his memories, with the members of his family representing the principal characters, the ties and divergencies that exist between art and life are revealed Clive Langham's phantasms have given birth to the outline of his novel. But while thinking he was depicting the others, he was in fact revealing certain hidden aspects of his own character.
Festivals
" By far the most exciting film I have ever made was Alain Resnais's Providence. "
AN ACTOR AND HIS TIME autobiography by John Gielgud
"Providence was voted the greatest film of the 70's by an international jury of critics and, at Telluride, Norman Mailer called it "the greatest film ever made on the creative process."
CINESCENE (Howard Schumann)
































