It’s the classic cinema vs reality question isn’t it? Where does the reality stop and the cinema begin?
At one time or another, aren’t we all bedwetters?
Isn’t Murmur of the Heart supposed to be somewhat autobiographical? Does this mean Louis Malle fucked his mother?
Oedipus complex
The answer to many of your questions re Au revoir les enfants and reality are answered here:
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/07/movies/malle-confronts-haunting-memory.html?pagewanted=all
I think that, when all’s said and done, there is no way Malle could have made a film as horrific as the events that passed—even as he had witnessed them, from something of a remove. He wisely hews to the childish ignorance of himself and his schoolmates (to be distinguished from the feigned ignorance one sees in the interviews with adult Vichy collaborators & opportunists, in The Sorrow and the Pity).
Ah, ever heard of nocturnal emissions?
Maurice Gianesin
I recently saw Au Revoir Les Enfants. The back label said it was semi – autobiographical. DId Louis attend a Catholic boys school during his youth? The main character has a problem with bedwetting. Was Louis also a bedwetter? I know it’s a strange question. I was just wonderring how similar the main character and Louis were in real life.