To penetrate the secrecy of the success of the Autobiography of a schizophrenic girl(work which was at the origin of the film under the same title),it would be afterwards
easy to call upon the recourse to the cinema as a means of
starting a commercial rebound.Easy and unjust for Mrs. Sechehaye's work for it is in fact since 1951 that the book had
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If going from film to the book
is not enough to elucidate the repercussion of the work on the public, still much more perilous
would be the movement which would
consist in rationalizing the cinematographic success of Nelo Risi
by the fact that it was drawn from
a work with success. It was really
a schizophrenic succes. And when
one raises the expansion of praises which nourished the critical
articles of the time, one definitively gives up wanting to explain
the influence of the one by that
of the other. Oscar with the Festival of Venice in 1968.Mention spéciale with the VIII international meetings of the film for the youth at Cannes. In all and for all, nine rewards in the festivals where it was presented. Moreover, one finds the traces among the many translations for the foreign public. To start with France for even if Ghislaine d'Orsay in Anna's part was French, the production was Italian. But also in Germany where we found the existence of it with the Humbold-Universitât |
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In Italy, naturally, and certainly in Spain since in this
language, it is in a bank of cinematographic data of South
America, in Uruguay exactly, that we discovered a version of
it. There still, we did not devote ourselves to a research
aiming at indexing all the depository places of the work
(we referred neither the United States, nor Japan), an impossible task for film as well as for the book, but it is necessary to think or at least to hope that, via the laboratory
and the possibility of filling the form, we will have a geographic representation of all the places around the world
where Renee's case will have had an impact. We have already mentioned Ghislaine d'Orsay. Impossible to conclude without pointing out the presence of Margarita Lozano in the role of Dr. Blanche with the brilliant career which she carried out (participation in thirty-five films among which Manon des sources) and to underline as much that of the Italian actor Umberto Raho. |
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