"The FIPRESCI award on the 28th Stockholm International Film Festival is going to the film thatis marked with an exceptional quality of cinema language. The genre of 'paranoic thriller' is treated by the author as perfectly as it could be and allows him to research some extremely complicated issues without any loss of the enchanted energy of narration. The film considers the very process of an artistic creation as a sophisticated game between an artist and reality based on perpetual mutual manipulations and disguises. The formal brilliance is combined here with a crafty elaboration of every detail. So, the FIPRESCI jury is proudly and reverently announced that its award is going to Roman Polanski for the film D'après une histoire vraie (Based on a True Story)."
