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...film, Anna (Ghislaine D'Orsay) lives in an interior Tibet, where she rules as queen but is not permitted to eat. She cries of "orders that must be obeyed" and "a system that is accusing me of an infinite crime." She resists even spoonfeeding. Her analyst, Blanche (Margarita Lo-zano), patiently unravels the girl's deep, snarled skein of emotions...
Ghislaine D'Orsay, a schoolgirl in Italy making her first acting appearance, is unselfconsciously compelling as the irrational, ranting girl. Margarita Lozano carefully controls her role as the wearily optimistic analyst. She is especially touching at the end, when the girl she has raised from darkness to light-and who in turn has uplifted her-is ready to leave. "It feels like a bereavement inside of me. That, I suppose, is the price of giving birth...
...MARGARITA BERTRAN DE OLIVARES...
...satirical novelist and playwright who died in 1940, but so far they have not screwed their courage up to the point of publishing The Heart of a Dog, a novel recently spirited out of Russia in manuscript form. Bulgakov's complex and comical allegory, The Master and Margarita, was judged fit to be published in his homeland, after some ideological laundering. That was followed by Black Snow, a cudgeling of Stanislavsky. But these satires of Soviet life were devious enough so that the literary bureaucracy could pretend that they were not satire...
...target in The Heart of a Dog: it is the boorish, overweening, ignorant, slogan-stuffed Soviet proletarian. Bulgakov wrote this short, scornful novel in 1925, drawing on his inexhaustible supply of contempt. Its method is the "fantastic realism" he was to use later in The Master and Margarita. Matter-of-fact becomes matter-of-fantasy; madly grotesque events are described in the language of naturalism...