Director:
Alain ResnaisGuión:
David MercerCámara:
Ricardo AronovichMúsica:
Miklós RózsaReparto:
Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud, David Warner, Elaine Stritch, Denis Lawson, Samson Fainsilber, Tanya Lopert, Peter Arne, Milo Sperber, Anna Wing (más)Sinopsis(1)
Clive, es un anciano escritor, amargado y enfermo, aquejado de un cáncer terminal. Durante una noche de pesadillas y bajo los efectos del alcohol, reflexiona sobre su última novela, basada en las conflictivas relaciones entre su familia, donde se mezcla la imaginación y los recuerdos de su vida. (As Films S.A.)
Reseñas (1)
A story that demonstrates that sometimes fiction can be the truth of reality and that the night-time alcoholic retreat into the world of fiction can be a form of therapy for the soul and a way (or at least an attempt) to come to terms with one's own past mistakes. Reality offers the old man nothing but a false game of pretense, which we, as viewers, only fully see through thanks to our previous immersion into the old man's imagination. Within it, he can seek revenge on his (cold is a weak word) son (the great Bogarde) and attempt to reconcile with past traumas. Yet what surprises the viewer is often the rather humorous approach. Nevertheless, it is a depressing story about a man losing control over his body, his loved ones, and ultimately, his memory and imagination. The characters on the screen are largely presented as determined by an external power (the will of the story's old writer-narrator), reminiscent of Resnais' subsequent film My American Uncle, where the characters are determined physiologically or psychosocially.
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