Más allá del olvido
A man who deeply loves his wife, tears before his death by disease . After falling into despair, she embarks on a journey trying to forget but, in Paris, he meets a look-alike of his beloved.
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"A previous reviewer considers this to be Hugo del Carril's finest film. I blush to confess that I am unfamiliar with his work but this tastefully made and absorbing melodrama has certainly whetted my appetite. It is based on a novel by Belgian writer Georges Rodenbach from 1893 of which the premise of a grieving man moulding another woman in the image of the great love he has lost predates that of the 1954 'Entre deux Morts' by Boileau and Narcejac which formed the basis for 'Vertigo'. As well as looking forward to Hitchcock's masterwork released two years later,..."
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The similarity of the plot theme of Vertigo (1958) and Más allá del olvido (1956), shot two years before in Buenos Aires, obsessed all Argentine movie buffs for decades. Finally the question was elucidated: the link between both films is the novella "Bruges-la-Morte" (1893) of the Belgian writer Georges Rodenbach. Hugo del Carril adapted it directly. Alfred Hitchcock indirectly, through a French novel entitled "D'Entre Les Morts" (1954) that its authors Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac hatched a childish police plot about the double tragedy of Rodenbach.
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A man who deeply loves his wife, tears before his death by disease . After falling into despair, she embarks on a journey trying to forget but, in Paris, he meets a look-alike of his beloved.