original title:
Sqizo
directed by:
editing:
music:
producer:
production:
FilmAffair, Les Films d'Ici, Rai Cinema, Epsifilm
world sales:
country:
Italy / USA / France
year:
2018
film run:
75' / 52'
format:
colour
status:
Ready (13/11/2018)
festivals & awards:
Born in NY, diagnosed schizophrenic, rebelled against his mother tongue, became a cult-writer in France: SQIZO is a journey into a special mind that reveals to the world the incredible human and literary life of Louis Wolfson. Inveterate gambler who lived part of his life as a homeless man, ‘an American writer of the French language’ who fascinated Sartre and De Beauvoir as well as Auster and Le Clézio, but ultimately the winner of the lottery of Puerto Rico where he currently lives. Aged 72, obsessed by other forms of life in the universe, he moved to Puerto Rico to be near the world’s biggest radio telescope. This is where the director found him 8 years ago.