Providence (1977)
Alain Resnais with David Mercer as writer have cooked up this veddy English concoction which might be called a midsummer night’s nightmare with surefire leads Gielgud and Bogarde, (impossibly slim and elegant— old school), along with David Warner, still in costume for writer Mercer’s film Morgan! , (Mercer must have cherished that one) all very clever but with such a dense interweaving of reality and imagination impossible to draw more than a doubtful sense of depth and meaning to the affaire. Does if invite detailed scrutiny? I have found no evidence of that.. The few VHS tapes on the market sell for outrageous prices on Amazon supposed evidence of quality which doesn’t seem reflected in the film’s traces it left behind.

Ah, for the life of an English country squire. Wish fulfillment by plebeian Mercer?

For a long time I was sure that Dirk had been in every English movie ever made. The picture of soigné