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Release Date:
9 febrero 1977 (France) másPlot:
Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives... más | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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11 wins & 1 nomination másComentarios de los usuarios:
A hilarious trip másCast
(Complete credited cast)| Dirk Bogarde | ... | Claude Langham | |
| Ellen Burstyn | ... | Sonia Langham | |
| John Gielgud | ... | Clive Langham | |
| David Warner | ... | Kevin Langham / Kevin Woodford | |
| Elaine Stritch | ... | Helen Wiener | |
| Cyril Luckham | ... | Doctor Mark Eddington | |
| Denis Lawson | ... | Dave Woodford (as Dennis Lawson) | |
| Kathryn Leigh Scott | ... | Miss Boon | |
| Milo Sperber | ... | Mr. Jenner | |
| Anna Wing | ... | Karen | |
| Peter Arne | ... | Nils | |
| Tanya Lopert | ... | Miss Lister | |
| Joseph Pittoors | ... | An Old Man | |
| Samson Fainsilber | ... | The Old Man |
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Kevin Woodford: Are you the lady who's dying?Helen Wiener: [drily] Yes, I'm the lady who's dying.
Claude Langham: Refreshingly direct, isn't he? I understand that his mind is in outer space most of the time, so that when it returns it has a cosmic scale of values.
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This is one of the strangest movies I know. French intellectual aesthete meets contemporary British playwright - this should be the title of Providence. When two completely different cultures meet for a common project, the risk of failure is enormous. But in this case something interestingly and uniquely hilarious was created. Providence is a feverish dream that was successfully created for the screen.
The dream sequences of an old, dying writer, played by John Gielgud are absurd in a very British way. John Gielguds's upper class "king's English" voice-over adds effectively to its strangeness. As usual in contemporary British plays, sex and bowel movements are of the utmost importance . no, the script as a whole is neither very original nor particularly funny. I liked the incongruous, illogical situations though. Every now and then, in the most impossible situations, a strange, sickly looking football player (he seems to have fallen off Monty Python's Flying Circus) jogs limply past.
Director Alain Resnais is responsible for the dreamscapes, and they make Providence worth watching. Real settings are artfully distorted into haunting, surreal spatial sequences. Foreground and background, light and darkness, different textures and beautiful color arrangements are expertly arranged into a world of its own that is never too far from reality. One is sometimes reminded of Magritte's surrealistic paintings. Strange sounds add to the almost psychedelic effect the dream scenes have.
The acting is remarkable, especially Dirk Bogarde as the writer's slick, cynical «dream son» gives an outstanding performance.