2001 film by Lucrecia Martel

Tú me abrasas is 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. The film adapts not only the text but also footnotes and gaps in the story. For example, the fact that, in 1950, a desperate Pavese committed suicide in a hotel room with this book by his side. Or that Sappho’s poems have survived only in fragments. Or that sea foam is historically and scientifically associated with fertility and bacteria, that is, with life itself. “Everything dies in the sea and comes back to life,” says Britomartis. Tú me abrasas introduces new readings and translations that go beyond the myths by Pavese and Sappho.

It features the director’s voiceover as an introduction to the feature.

Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.

璜塔拉杜图的首作《係我唔係你，边个话容易》像极一部活地阿伦喜剧，次作情调急转弯，然而男主角还是教人联想是个心结重重的布宜诺斯艾利斯「蓝茉莉」，只是寡言而已。艾多度不情愿远赴国境之南，代打理要入院动手术朋友的杂货店。他的封闭态度最初令朋友的太太及两个女儿不快，但见着她们的孤苦迷惑，艾多度毅然承担，个人心魔之牆也拆毁，释出心底的罪与痛。狄高皮列堤的演出貌似低调，实处处惊喜，火花暗牵，于阿布扎比电影节荣膺影帝。 电影前半部少说话少做事，不知何解令我想起去年看的「校园欺凌后」，就是有点闷及有点迷。 去到后半部一家四口的温馨家庭发生巨变，身同感受的男主角所做的事令我觉得很窝心！当慢慢明白到男主角的内心世界，前半部其实用心舖排，男主角行为差异令观众有更深感受。 电影是部从悲伤沉重的故事中释怀内心，重新振作起步的窝心小品。