Providence
Synopsis
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. He is a bitter man and he shows, through flashbacks, how spiteful, conniving and treacherous his family is. But is this how they really are or is it his own vindictive slant on things?
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- Executive Producer : Action Film
- Co-production : France 3 Cinéma
- Foreign production company : Citel Films
- Associate producer : Société Française de Production (SFP)
- Film exports/foreign sales : Jupiter Communications/Jupiter Films
Full credits (18)
- Screenwriter : David Mercer
- Director of Photography : Ricardo Aronovich
- Music Composer : Miklos Rozsa
- Assistant directors : John Lvoff, Florence Malraux, Guy Pinon
- Editor : Albert Jurgenson
- Sound Recordist : René Magnol
- Costume designer : Catherine Leterrier
- Foreign producers : Yves Gasser, Yves Peyrot, Klaus Hellwig
- Producers : Yves Gasser, Yves Peyrot, Klaus Hellwig
- Line Producer : Philippe Dussart
- Co-producer : Lise Fayolle
- Production managers : Michel Choquet, Antoine Gannagé
- Sound Editor : Claude Plouganou
- Assistant Editor : Jean-Pierre Besnard
- Continuity supervisor : Marie-José Guissart
- Production Designer : Jacques Saulnier
- Sound Mixer : Jacques Maumont
- Location Manager : Gérard Gaultier
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Metaphysical investigation
- Themes : Ageing
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : France, Switzerland
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Switzerland)
- Production year : 1977
- French release : 09/02/1977
- Runtime : 1 h 52 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 45943
- Visa issue date : 08/02/1977
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Audio format : Mono
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The film contains a unique variety of visual techniques which illustrate Langham’s 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 Ellen Burstyn. Burstyn 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, Burstyn 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.
The film won seven César Awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Editing, as well as the New York Film Critics Circle Award for John Gielgud.
Although he was one of the preeminent theatre actors of the 20th century, Gielgud felt that this was his only completely successful attempt at film acting.[1]
The bipartite structure of Providence has been identified by critics as a precursor to David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997) and Mulholland Drive (2002).
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