Cinema 5
Directed by Alain Resnais
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Rarefilmm)
Dying author John Gielgud imagines the scenes of his latest novel during a long, sleepless nights. The characters are gross exaggerations of family members and are a mixture of fantasy and reality. Dirk Bogarde plays his son, an aloof, narcissistic lawyer who may or may not be having an affair with the wife of a soldier he is prosecuting for murder. Other scenes, which may or may not be related, include a werewolf on the loose in a dark forest, elderly people being rounded up and held in a stadium and a rather graphic autopsy of an old man. The next day, the more lucid Gielgud welcomes all of these characters to his country mansion for his birthday party, where everything appears normal. However, he unexpectedly asks them all to leave. Typical Resnais which blurs time and space to mostly great effect, but it is awfully confusing and may take multiple viewings to sort it all out, if that is even possible.
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