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Films suivants

Providence

1977

TITLE

Providence

DIRECTOR

Alain RESNAIS

AUTHOR

David MERCER

CAST

Dirk BOGARDE, Ellen BURSTYN, John GIELGUD

SYNOPSIS

The 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.

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CREDITS
 
Country of origin
France, Suisse
 
Genre
Drama
 
Production year
1977
 
Original language
English
 
Dubbed versions
French, German, Italian, Spanish
 
Subtitled versions
French, Spanish
 
Lenght
112'
 
Other titles
Providence
REVIEWS

" 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)

FESTIVALS

7 Césars
Europeen Critics Award
American Critics Award
New York Film Festival
Valladolid Festival : Golden Spike
Décibel d'Or (Golden Decibel)
Bodil Awards : Best European Film

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