Borges Film – Cuentos: Emma Zunz
- At September 28, 2018
- By Great Quail
- In Borges
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Emma Zunz
1993, Spain & France, 52 min.
Crew
Directed by Benoît Jacquot.
Screenplay by Benoît Jacquot and Sophie Fillières.
Cinematography by Romain Winding.
Cast
Judith Godrèche – Emma Zunz
Claude Brosset – Loewenthal
Stéphanie Tchou-Cotta – Perla
Sandrine Kiberlain – Elsa
Synopsis
Emma Zunz is a joint production with France’s Cinétévé. According to Cinétévé—and I refuse to reword this amazingly-translated synopsis into better English—the movie is about: “A young 19 years old girl, Emma Zunz, lives modestly in a harbour town, in the beginning of the 20’S. She is a worker at the Lowenthal’s factory, the man who bankrupted her father. When she learns the death of her father, runned away abroad further to his bankruptcy, Emma Zunz decides to kill Lowenthal. She prepares in a few days her plan: She will give herself (for the first time ) to a passing through sailor just before killing Lowenthal , the murder becoming thus the legitimate answer to the rape that Lowenthal may have inflicted her.”
Comments
In 1993, Televisión Española (RTVE) aired a limited series called Los cuentos de Borges, or “Borges Tales.” Consisting of six hour-long episodes, each was an adaptation of a Borges story helmed by a different director. The BBC and France’s Cinétévé also participated in the project.
Additional Information
Emma Zunz
You can watch the entire film on YouTube [Spanish]
Los cuentos de Borges [DVD]
Copies of the Cuentos DVD box set are available from Amazon.com. They are coded for regions 1–6, and do not include English subtitles.
Films for Humanities: Emma Zunz
The Films for the Humanities page on Emma Zunz features a preview and “chapter-based” synopsis.
IMDB Page
The Internet Movie Database maintains a small page on Emma Zunz.
Los cuentos de Borges: Episodes
Los cuentos de Borges
Back to the main page for Los cuentos de Borges.
El sur
Directed by Carlos Saura, this is a loose adaptation of Borges’ autobiographical story “The South.”
La otra historia de Rosendo Juárez
Directed by Gerardo Vera and starring Antonio Banderas, this is an alternate version of Borges’ story, “Rosendo’s Tale.”
La intrusa
Directed by Jaime Chávarri, this is an adaptation of “The Intruder.”
El evangelio según Marcos
Directed by Héctor Olivera, this is an adaptation of “The Gospel According to Mark.”
La muerte y la brújula
Directed by Alex Cox with the BBC, Death and the Compass was later expanded into a feature-length film.
Author: Allen B. Ruch
Last Modified: 27 August 2024
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