The link above leads to a trailer for the film Providence, directed by Alain Resnais and featuring a diverse ensemble of wonderful actors. They include the American actress Elaine Stritch, a sharp-voiced possessor of great musical talent and fierce wit who died July 17 at age 89.
Stritch belonged much more to theater than to cinema. She was known best for her roles in Broadway shows (including her brilliant work with Stephen Sondheim), and the films that provided her with her biggest showcases were documentary records of her stage work.
However, she occasionally found rich supporting parts in fiction films whose scenes she could steal with aplomb. Her role in Resnais’s film as the embittered, hard-drinking lover of a haughty younger British barrister (both of them possible products of a writer’s imagination) is among the most shining examples.