A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore. When he discovers that she also steals from other bookstores, he is consumed with jealousy and starts living in a kind of love delirium, on the border between fiction and reality. The closer he gets to her, the more indescribable she becomes and he begins to wonder why she steals, what are her values and who is the older man she lives with. In the end, what is real and what isn’t? And will he find a place in her life as he moves away from his own?
Cinematography
Shadows that breathe; every frame feels borrowed.
Acting
Quevedo's absence-presence is the whole performance.
Writing
Borges fans, your pretentious bingo card is ready.
Director
Felipe Hirsch
Javier Drolas
R
Carla Quevedo
"Ana" Severina
Alfredo Castro
Otto Blanco
Alejandro Awada
Ahmed
Daniel Hendler
Amigo 1/Hombre Cinta
Gonzalo Delgado
Amigo 2
Susana Groisman
Mujer de la Pensión
Néstor Guzzini
Hombre con Gafas
Hugo Piccinini
Recepcionista del Hospital
Alfonso Tort
Paramédico
Nuria Fló
Chica
Anaclara Ferreyra Palfy
Chica que sale con R
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hirsch adapts Rodrigo Fresán's novel, part of a wave of Argentine cinema exploring masculine creative crisis through female absence.
The film's multiple Severinas were played by different actresses in early cuts—Hirsch kept only Quevedo to deepen the unreality.
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