Writing
Julio Cortázar
Born August 26, 1914 · Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
Died February 12, 1984 · aged 69
Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984) was an Argentine, nationalized French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in America and Europe. He is considered one of the most innovative and original authors of his time, a mas…
Known For
Blow-Up · 1966Blow-Up
★ 7.31966
MovieDramaMystery
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.
Weekend · 1967Weekend
★ 6.91967
MovieComedy
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.
Os Moradores da Rua Humboldt · 1992Os Moradores da Rua Humboldt
1992
MovieFantasyComedy
The story of a large family in which each member develops a strange occupation.
Casa tomada · 1970Casa tomada
1970
MovieDrama
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. Based on Julio Cortázar’s short story of the same name, *Casa tomada* was one of the most important short films produced within the film department of the National University of La Plata between the 1960s and the early 1970s.
Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell · 1965Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell
★ 9.71965
MovieDocumentary
Cinema and painting establish a fluid dialogue and begins with introspection in the themes and forms of the plastic work of a woman tormented by the elongated specters, originating from her obsessions and nightmares.
La Noche Boca Arriba · 2012La Noche Boca Arriba
2012
MovieAnimationFantasy
A man has a motorcycle accident. Upon arriving at the hospital he begins to have strange hallucinations of a past that does not seem to be his. Here he begins a journey that will collapse the limits of his own reality. Chilean stop motion animated short film, based on the homonymous story by Julio Cortázar.
Continuidad · 2001Continuidad
2001
Movie
Last audiovisual student project from Juan José Namnún's days as a cinematography student at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD).
Close Up · 1997Close Up
★ 10.01997
MovieThrillerMystery
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 Stephen King's novella "The Sun Dog" and Julio Cortázar's short story "Blow-Up" ("Las babas del diablo").
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