Several critics pointed out that the opening scene (a highly uncomfortable Samuel Beckett receiving the Nobel Prize, then rapidly leaving the stage without speaking) is poetic license. In reality, Beckett did not attend the ceremony but asked his friend and publisher Jérôme Lindon to accept the award on his behalf. In the movie, Beckett mutters that the awarding of the prize is a "catastrophe" to his wife Suzanne, who reacts: in fact, it was Suzanne herself who made the comment.
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