Tú me abrasas is an adaptation of “Sea Foam”, a chapter from Cesare Pavese’s “Dialoghi con Leucò” published in 1947. The ancient Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomartis meet beside the sea and have a conversation about love and death. Sappho is said to have thrown herself into the ocean from lovesickness. Britomartis apparently tumbled off a cliff and into the water while fleeing from a man. Together, the two discuss the stories and images that have emerged around them to try and understand, at least for a moment, the bittersweet nature of desire. The film adapts not only the text but also footnotes and gaps in the story. For example, the fact that, in 1950, a desperate Pavese committed suicide in a hotel room with this book by his side. Or that Sappho’s poems have survived only in fragments. Or that sea foam is historically and scientifically associated with fertility and bacteria, that is, with life itself. “Everything dies in the sea and comes back to life,” says Britomartis. Tú me abrasas introduces new readings and translations that go beyond the myths by Pavese and Sappho.
托尼·塞尔维洛,卡洛·维尔多内,萨布丽娜·费里利,卡洛·布奇罗索,雅雅·芙尔特,帕梅拉·韋路列斯,加拉泰亚·兰齐,佛朗哥格拉齐奥西,乔治·帕索蒂,马西莫·波波利齐奥,Sonia Gessner,Anna Della Rosa,卢卡·马里内利,塞伦娜·格兰蒂,伊凡·弗拉内克,弗农·多布切夫,达里奥·坎塔雷利,Luciano Virgilio,Aldo Ralli,安妮塔·克拉沃斯,Maria Lau