1. Your father thinks the world and the worst of you, doomed to himself and his lens on life, but you've got life on your side, even in middle age, because of those values you found in the everyday.

2. A masterpiece of second-person filmmaking, I think, that will require more time to fully suss out and likewise assimilate but it's up there with Muriel as far as movie-machines go.

3. Look no further for your arguments in favor of artifice.

Resnais' Providence is one of the very few clear formal antecedents of Adaptation.

1. Your father thinks the world and the worst of you, doomed to himself and his lens on life, but you've got life on your side, even in middle age, because of those values you found in the everyday.

2. A masterpiece of second-person filmmaking, I think, that will require more time to fully suss out and likewise assimilate but it's up there with Muriel as far as movie-machines go.

3. Look no further for your arguments in favor of artifice.

A wish that life be more interesting than it is? Also a fine bit of drama, especially on the part of Dick Borgade, who can turn the most meaningless of phrases into spoken art, never mind what he does with David Mercer's loftier text. Ellen Burstyn never seems to be at home (though there's a textual reading for that, I suppose).

Old cad's death rattle—
Chronic arse ache sends him Dada.
Dying for vino.

My favorite of the Resnais films I've seen. Makes me really sad he never made a movie out of those scripts Stan Lee wrote for him.