Movies: Julio Cortázar

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film....

Two brothers quarrel for the love of a woman. One of them falls ill and dies; the other one marries her. The couple’s relationship falters in Paris due to the involvement of a reproaching mother, who still acts as if the dead brother were alive and l...

In a desert town, sometime in the future, a repressive government regime restricts all forms of artistic expression. At night, Theo breaks the law, risking torture and death, to paint his work on public spaces. But when his lover Elia is arrested for...

In this extreme yet devastating testament to the loneliness of human existence, an older domestic woman, heartbreakingly rendered by Gence, is approached in the kitchen after a party by a young, gay man seeking affection. She is later offered money t...

A portrait which explores the legacy and impact of novelist Julio Cortazar's art, perceptively examining it within the context of shifting tides of Argentine culture and politics. The author reads his own texts in this poetic documentary....

A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations....

Havana, spring 1971: The poet Heberto Padilla has just been set free and appears before the Cuban Writers' Union where he pronounces a statement of "heartfelt self-criticism", declares himself to be a counterrevolutionary agent and throws accusations...

An account of the childhood and youth of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, and how the hard experiences he lived during these formative years led him to write and publish his first major work when he was only...

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A young photographer wanders the city taking pictures with a Polaroid 600, but on each print the silhouette of a woman on a bicycle appears. The sequence of photos makes it clear that the woman is about to be hit by a trolleybus. Based loosely on St...

Two men and a beautiful woman are involved in a three-way relationship during a trip to Machu Picchu....

When a woman dies of an inexplicable disease, her widower, a greedy landlord and her sister, obsessed with her house, must survive a sinister psychic and supernatural force that sickens everyone who lives in the house....

The story of an aging woman and the unusual services she has to provide as a maid in a noble house. Based on a story by Julio Cortázar....

The story of an Argentine family entangled in a web of lies, all of which relate to the fabricated adventures of a lost son who sends gifts from foreign lands. What begins as a liberating game becomes a trap from which none in the family can escape....

Tensions between classes and genres, national and international, popular and formal, color and black and white, figurative and abstract revive the eternal discussion between opposites that the imaginary cronopios and famas represent....

Two elderly people live in a large house, following a dull and predictable routine. They are stalked by another elderly man—tall, dressed in a black coat, and with a ghostly presence—who eventually takes up residence in one of the rooms of the house....

In the 1950s, while radio is slowly being surpassed by television as the leading broadcast medium, Tito Balcárcel, a voice actor, becomes romantically involved with Lúcia, a fan of his who drags him into a mysterious crime plot....

The story of a saxophonist with delusions of persecution that is being destroyed little by little by means of alcohol, drugs and sex. A story by Cortázar inspired by the life of Charlie Parker, it shows a fragmented narration and remarkable formal as...

Interview conducted with Julio Cortázar by journalist Joaquín Soler Serrano on March 20, 1977....

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