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You Burn Me

You Burn Me

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 21, 2024

Runtime

1h 4m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

Tú me abrasas

Production Companies

Trapecio Cine, Películas mirando el techo, Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola

Director

Matías Piñeiro

Description

An adaptation of “Sea Foam”, a chapter from Cesare Pavese’s “Dialoghi con Leucò” published in 1947. The ancient Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomartis meet beside the sea and have a conversation about love and death. Sappho is said to have thrown herself into the ocean from lovesickness. Britomartis apparently tumbled off a cliff and into the water while fleeing from a man. Together, the two discuss the stories and images that have emerged around them to try and understand, at least for a moment, the bittersweet nature of desire.