you burn me
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Overview
you burn me adapts Sea Foam, a chapter of Cesare Pavese’s Dialogues with Leucò in which the Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomart talk of desire and death, while also imagining its potential footnotes and detours.
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Review
Breaking away from his previous approach of basing his creations on the works of Shakespeare, director Matías Piñeiro instead tells a love story based on a different literary source. The book he adopts this time is Dialogues with Leucò by the Italian author Cesare Pavese. In particular, he focuses on the “Sea Foam” episode featuring the poet Sappho, a figure who actually lived but of whom little is known apart from a few works of her poetry. The film interweaves its characters’ lives with text excerpts and footnotes while following the associations that they evoke. Piñeiro assembled all these stories to capture in his 16mm camera. The original Spanish title(tú me abrasas) contains an untranslatable example of wordplay, and the film delicately records beautiful images, objects, landscapes, and people in a way that both embraces(abrazar) and burns(abrasar) us. (Sung MOON)
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Credit
- DirectorMatías PIÑEIRO
- ProducerMelanie SCHAPIRO, Garbiñe ORTEGA, Matías PIÑEIRO
- ScreenplayMatías PIÑEIRO
- CinematographyTomas Paula MARQUES, Matías PIÑEIRO
- MusicGabi SAIDON, María VILLAR
- EditorGerard BORRÀS
- SoundMercedes GAVIRIA JARAMILLO
- CastGabi SAIDON, María VILLAR, Agustina MUÑOZ, Maria Ines GONÇALVES
Film Source
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Director
Matías PIÑEIRO
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1982. Based in New York, USA since 2011. He is a film director who teaches cinema at Pratt Institute and Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola. His latest film you burn me (2023) premiered in Berlinale 2024. He also has worked in film programming. He is currently adapting Francesco Petrarca's Remedies for Fortunes.
