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Matías Piñeiro

Tú me abrasas (You Burn Me)

Director Matías Piñeiro Composer Gabi Saidón, María Villar Cast Ana Cristina Barragán, Maria Inês Gonçalves, Agustina Muñoz
Edition 2024
64' - 2024 - Drama - Format: DCP - Dialogue: English
According to the ancient Greeks, the poet Sappho threw herself into the ocean out of heartache, while the nymph Britomartis fell from a cliff into the water on the run from a pursuer. Distinct filmmaker Matías Piñeiro brings the two and their almost palpable pain together in the intriguing visual poem Tú me abrasas (You Burn Me). Mythical and modern.

Through films such as Viola (FFG2013) and Hermia & Helena (FFG2016), Argentine Matías Piñeiro explored the works of William Shakespeare in a modern and original way. For Tú me abrasas, he turned to the ancient Greeks. In this free adaptation of a chapter from the book Conversations with Leuco by Italian writer Cesare Pavese, Piñeiro depicts a conversation between the poetess Sappho and the nymph Britomartis about (unrequited) love and death. They meet by the sea, where, according to Britomartis, everything dies and comes back to life, and discover their opposite desires. Pavese's unhappy ghost hangs over the mythical characters' story, canned with a corny Bolex 16mm camera. Piñeiro interweaves words and images into associative stanzas in a visual poem, lyrical like Sappho's poetry, about the bittersweet nature of burning desire.

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Credits

Directors

Matías Piñeiro

Composers

Gabi Saidón, María Villar

Cast

Ana Cristina Barragán, Maria Inês Gonçalves, Agustina Muñoz

Scenario

Matías Piñeiro

Director of Photography

Tomas Paula Marques, Matías Piñeiro

Editors

Gerard Borràs

Producers

Garbiñe Ortega, Matías Piñeiro, Melanie Schapiro

Production studios

Elías Querejeta Producciones Cinematográficas S.L.

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Dialogue

English

Countries of production

Argentina, Spain

Year

2024

Filmography

Matías Piñeiro
Una Mujer Silenciosa (short, 2002), In the Museum (short 2015), Rosalinda (short 2011), Viola (2012), La princesa de Francia (2014), Sycorax (short, 2021), tú me abrasas (2024)

Technical Specs

Format
DCP