Circe (film)

Circe
Circe
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Manuel Antín
Written by	Manuel Antín; Julio Cortázar; Héctor Grossi
Based on	"Circe"; by Julio Cortázar
Produced by	Salvador Salías
Starring	Graciela Borges; Alberto Argibay
Cinematography	Américo Hoss
Edited by	José Serra
Music by	Adolfo Mo rpurgo
Release date	1964;
Country	Argentina
Language	Spanish

Circe is a 1964 Argentine film directed by Manuel Antín. It was entered into the 14th Berlin International Film Festival.

The film is based on a short story by Julio Cortázar, published in 1951. Its main theme is about perverse sexual gratification in a repressed Catholic environment. Delia Mañara is notorious in her quarter of Buenos Aires for the mysterious deaths of two of her fiancés. She lives in a twilight world and gains most satisfaction through the exercise of power over others. It emerges that she killed the two men by poisoning them with the sweets she makes; when this fails with her third fiancé, he is freed from her fatal attraction by the knowledge.^[1]

Cast

Graciela Borges
Raúl Aubel
Alberto Argibay
Alberto Barcel
Josefina Boneo
Lydia Lamaison
Juan Carlos Lima
Víctor Martucci
Beatriz Matar
Sergio Renán
Claudia Sánchez
Walter Vidarte

References

^ The mythical correspondences are explored by Sophie Dufays in Circé de Cortázar : au carrefour du mythe et du fantastique, Folia Electronica Classica, B Louvain-la-Neuve 2007, Numéro 13

External links

Circe at IMDb

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[1] The mythical correspondences are explored by Sophie Dufays in Circé de Cortázar : au carrefour du mythe et du fantastique, Folia Electronica Classica, B Louvain-la-Neuve 2007, Numéro 13

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