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Homer: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man (1997)

★ 9.0/10 102 min Unknown Italian
Director: Fabio Carpi
Streaming: Not available

Description

Though he is near death, blind Rene, an elderly Italian-French intellectual, continues to make his annual conference abroad accompanied by his self-centered loyal, beautiful assistant Sibilla who may or may not be his lover. Rene's domineering mother strongly disapproves of Sibilla and his continual galavanting, but Rene disregards her and goes anyway. While in Spain, Sibilla falls for a handsome young toreador who also captures the interest of Rene, though it is hard to say whether his feelings for the bullfighter are fatherly or more romantic. It is also unclear as to whether Sibilla and the bullfighter are lovers either. Thus an enigmatic romantic triangle forms until Rene and Sibilla suddenly decide to wed. The character of Rene seems to be closely patterned after Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.

Top Cast

Claude Rich
Claude Rich René Kermadec
Valéria Cavalli
Valéria Cavalli Sibilla
Grégoire Colin
Grégoire Colin Manuel Fernandez
Renée Faure
Renée Faure
Jacques Dufilho
Jacques Dufilho
Natalia Bizzi
Natalia Bizzi
José Quaglio
José Quaglio
Linda Koslovich

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