Director
Alain Resnais
Music (original)
Miklós Rózsa
Cast
Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud
Edition 1998
104'
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1977
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Drama
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Format:
35mm
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Dialogue:
English
Clive Langham is a well-known writer in his late seventies. Langham is suffering from terminal cancer and "writer's block". In the course of one long night, in pain and half-drunk, he dreams up a series of scenes for a proposed novel. His characters are based on his own son Claud, Claud's wife Sonia and a man named Devin Woodford, who turns out to be Clive's "favourite bastard". More and more, as the night wears on, the imagined scenes mix themselves up with memories of the real past and shade into dreams and nightmares of political and mythological terror. Then suddenly the night is over and Clive is sitting in the noonday sun awaiting the gathering of his family. Over the next few days he slowly realises he cannot dominate their lives and the characters begin to lead their own lives.
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Credits
Directors
Alain Resnais
Music (original)
Miklós Rózsa
Cast
Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud
Scenario
David Mercer
Director of Photography
Ricardo Aronovich
Editors
Albert Jurgenson
Producers
Philippe Dussart
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Dialogue
English
Countries of production
Switzerland, France
Year
1977
Filmography
Alain Resnais
L'aventure de Guy (short, 1936), Schéma d'une identification (short, 1946), Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire (1946), Visite à Oscar Dominguez (short, 1947), Visite à Lucien Coutaud (short, 1947), Visite à Hans Hartung (short, 1947), Visite à Félix Labisse (short, 1947), Visite à César Doméla (short, 1947), Portrait d'Henri Goetz (short, 1947), Le last Nestlé (short, 1947), L'alcool tue (short, 1947), Journée naturelle (short, 1947), Van Gogh (short, 1948), Malfray (short, 1948), Les Jardins de Paris (short, 1948), Châteaux de France (short, 1948), Gaugain (short, 1949), Pictura (1951), Guernica (1951), Statues also Die (short, 1953), Night and Fog (short, 1956), All the Memory in the World (short, 1956), Le mystère de l'atelier quince (short, 1957), The Song of Styrene (short, 1958), Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), Muriel (1963), The War Is Over (1966), Far from Vietnam (1967), I Love You, I Love You (1968), Cinétracts (1968), The Year 01 (1973), Stavisky (1974), Providence (1977), My American Uncle (1980), Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983), Love Unto Death (1984), Mélo (1986), I Want to Go Home (1989), Lest We Forget (1991), No Smoking (1993), Same Old Song (1997), Not on the Lips (2003), Private Fears in Public Places (2006), Wild Grass (2009), You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012), Life of Riley (2014)
Technical Specs
Format
35mm