Estela Canto and Jorge Luis Borges meet in 1944. She is an intelligent and beautiful woman. He, still an unknown writer, is shy and very attached to his mother. They fall in love, or at least Borges does.
Acting
Noher's Borges: brilliant, insufferable, utterly believable.
Production
1940s Buenos Aires recreated with bookish, claustrophobic precision.
Writing
Navigates the man, the myth, and the mommy issues.
Director
Javier Torre
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Estela Canto's real 1946 memoir 'Borges a contraluz' was banned in Argentina for decades; this film finally let her speak.
The film suggests Borges' famous blindness began psychosomatically—punishment for seeing too clearly what he couldn't have.
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