For Alain Resnais Providence is a French/Swiss 1977 film directed by Alain Resnais and starring Dirk Bogarde, David Warner, Ellen Burstyn, Elaine Stritch, and John Gielgud. The film won the 1978 Csar Award for Best Film. Contents [hide] 1 Plot summary 1.1 Unusual elements in the film 2 Reception and influence 3 Cast 4 Awards and nominations 5 References 6 External links Plot summary[edit] Over a drunken, tormented night, dying writer Clive Langham (Gielgud) struggles with the plot of a novel. The characters are based on Langham's own family, who are depicted as spiteful, treacherous and decadent. Langham makes these people interact in a variety of settings courtrooms, mortuaries, werewolf-haunted forests. Although it is obvious that the writer's perceptions are distorted by bitterness and guilt, the extent of this is not made clear until the end, when the "real" family members come to Langham's house to celebrate his birthday. Unusual elements in the film[edit] The film contains a unique variety of visual techniques which illustrate Langhams internal editing of his material. We watch one scene evolve, and after several minutes, Langham decides that the dialogue is all wrong. The scene is performed again with different dialogue accompanying the basic actions of the scene. The most unusual example of internal editing is a scene between Dirk Bogarde and Elaine Stritch. Stritch enters the frame on the left side through a door. The camera then follows the characters in one continuous shot as they walk to the other side of the room, as their conversation progresses. In the end, Stritch returns to the side of the room where the door was. Now the door is gone, and she must descend a flight of stairs for her exit from the scene. (Wikipedia) http://www.alansondheim.org/Resnais1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/Resnais2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/Resnais3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/Resnais4.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/Resnais5.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/Resnais6.jpg I remember Providence and whereof the filming as in IMDB: Showing all 6 filming locations Nyack, New York, USA 1 of 1 found this interesting New York State Capital - Washington Avenue and State Street, Albany, New York, USA Is this interesting? Berchem, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium (Transvaalstraat and a 2nd location in the Zurenborg area around the Cogels-Osylei) Is this interesting? Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium Is this interesting? Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France Is this interesting? Providence, Rhode Island, USA Is this interesting? _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
