Circe (film)

Circe
Theatrical release poster
Directed byManuel Antín
Written byManuel Antín
Julio Cortázar
Héctor Grossi
Based on"Circe"
by Julio Cortázar
Produced bySalvador Salías
StarringGraciela Borges
Alberto Argibay
CinematographyAmérico Hoss
Edited byJosé Serra
Music byAdolfo Mo rpurgo
Release date
  • 1964 (1964)
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

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]

  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