Cortazar: Notes for a Documentary (2002)

Original title

Cortázar: apuntes para un documental

Directed by

Eduardo Montes-Bradley

Genre

documentary film

Country

Argentina

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary explores the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar through home movies, photographs, and interviews with people who knew him. It presents an open-ended portrait rather than a full biography.

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What happens

Cortázar: Notes for a Documentary (Spanish: Cortázar: apuntes para un documental) is a 2002 documentary film written and directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley about Julio Cortázar. The film is conceived as an open-ended essay —organized as a set of "notes" instead of a definitive account— and assembles home movies shot by Cortázar himself, previously unpublished photographs, fragments of feature films, and interviews with writers and intellectuals who knew or studied him. The documentary premiered on 5 December 2002 in Buenos Aires and was widely reviewed in the Argentine press, drawing a range of favorable and skeptical responses. It was produced by Contrakultura Films with support from the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts. The film was later screened at international film festivals, including the Havana Film Festival, and was distributed in the United States through Alexander Street Press. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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