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April 9, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Miles Nadal JCC
750 Spadina Avenue Toronto

This film screening is presented in partnership with the ARC Ensemble, following a concert called Hollywood Exiles, featuring music by Franz Waxman and Miklós Rózsa, on Sunday, April 6, 2025. [LINK to https://www.rcmusic.com/events-and-performances/arc-ensemble-hollywood-exiles]

Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995) wrote the score for Alain Resnais Providence (1977, 35mm, colour, 110 min), the director’s first English-language film starring John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, David Warner and Elaine Stritch. The film won 7 César Awards (the French Academy) including one for Rózsa’s score, one of which he was particularly fond.

This portrait of a writer’s last days, both autumnal and nightmarish, finds him surrounded by family, but retreating into his imagination, with his final work reflecting his ambivalence towards his children and the women in his life. As in so much of Resnais’ work, history, memory and fantasy are more permeable than solid, represented brilliantly by shifting spaces between the real and the imaginary.

Dr. Owen Lyons, DocMedia Program Director and Assistant Professor in the School of Image Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University, will introduce Rózsa and the film.

Dr. Owen Lyons is an Assistant Professor in the School of Image Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University. His research interests include Weimar cinema, media archaeology, and the visual culture of financial markets. His recent monograph, Finance and the World Economy in Weimar Cinema was published with Amsterdam University Press in 2023.

Screening: “Providence” featuring original score by Miklós Rózsa