You Burn Me

You Burn Me is an adaptation of “Sea Foam”, a chapter of Cesare Pavese’s 1947 book Dialoghi con Leucò. By the sea, the ancient Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomart are talking of love and death. Sappho is supposed to have thrown herself into the ocean from heartbreak. Britomart, to have accidentally fallen into the water from a cliff, while running from a man. Together they discuss the stories and images created around them, hoping to grasp, at least for a moment, the bittersweet nature of desire.

ES/AR, 2024, 64 min.; es / en sub / sk tit