A Movie of Rare Intelligence
On the eve of his 78th birthday, ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters based on his own family are shaped by his fantasies and memories, alongside his caustic commentary on their behaviour.
DramaComedyhusband wife relationshipautopsybirthday partyagingdysfunctional familyalcoholismauthorfather son relationship
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Cast
- Dirk BogardeClaude Langham
- David WarnerKevin Woodford
- Ellen BurstynSonia Langham
- Cyril LuckhamDr. Mark Eddington
- John GielgudClive Langham
- Tanya LopertMiss Lister
- Elaine StritchHelen Wiener
- Denis LawsonDave Woodford
- Kathryn Leigh ScottMiss Boon
- Milo SperberJenner
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- Alain ResnaisDirector
- David MercerScreenplay
- Ricardo AronovichDirector of Photography
- Miklós RózsaOriginal Music Composer
- Albert JurgensonEditor
- Yves GasserProducer
- Klaus HellwigProducer
- Yves PeyrotProducer
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