Writing
Julio Cortázar
Born — Died
1914-08-26 — 1984-02-12
Place of birth
Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
Known for
Writing
Credits
14 titles
Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984) was an Argentine, nationalized French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in America and Europe. He is considered one of the most innovative and original authors of his time, a master of history, poetic prose and short story in general and a creator of important novels that inaugurated a new way of making literature in the Hispanic world by breaking the classical moulds through narratives that escaped temporal linearity. He lived his childhood and adolescence and incipient m…
Known for
8.0Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the ORTF from January 12, 1972 to July 12, 1972, then on the second color channel of the ORTF from September 1972 to December 1974, and finally on Antenne 2 from January 1975 to December 21, 1989. The program returned to France 2 on December 20, 2018 and is hosted by Anne-Sophie Lapix.
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
7.3A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
Blow-Up
1966
9.7Cinema and painting establish a fluid dialogue and begins with introspection in the themes and forms of the plastic work of a woman tormented by the elongated specters, originating from her obsessions and nightmares.
Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell
1965
5.5Cherie, a Filipino maid, goes to a wealthy family's reception to do some extra work. But when she arrives, she discovers that her job is to look after the dogs. She then meets Milo, the family's young son.
Tinikling
2023
7.0Havana, spring 1971: The poet Heberto Padilla has just been set free and appears before the Cuban Writers' Union where he pronounces a statement of "heartfelt self-criticism", declares himself to be a counterrevolutionary agent and throws accusations of complicity at many of his colleagues present at the event, among them, his wife. A month previously, his arrest under the accusation of endangering the security of the Cuban state had mobilised prominent intellectuals all over the world, who wrote a letter to Fidel Castro calling for the release of the poet, whose only sin had been to dissent through his poetic work. The writer's mea culpa, the recording of which is shown for the first time to the public, marks the narrative line of a story including the testimonies of Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jorge Edwards and Fidel Castro.
The Padilla Affair
2023
Interview conducted with Julio Cortázar by journalist Joaquín Soler Serrano on March 20, 1977.
IN DEPTH: Julio Cortázar
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Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
7.0Havana, spring 1971: The poet Heberto Padilla has just been set free and appears before the Cuban Writers' Union where he pronounces a statement of "heartfelt self-criticism", declares himself to be a counterrevolutionary agent and throws accusations of complicity at many of his colleagues present at the event, among them, his wife. A month previously, his arrest under the accusation of endangering the security of the Cuban state had mobilised prominent intellectuals all over the world, who wrote a letter to Fidel Castro calling for the release of the poet, whose only sin had been to dissent through his poetic work. The writer's mea culpa, the recording of which is shown for the first time to the public, marks the narrative line of a story including the testimonies of Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jorge Edwards and Fidel Castro.
The Padilla Affair
2023
NRCortázar: Instrucciones de montaje (I) Collects the writer's underlines and notes, challenging concepts such as reading, personal library or reader.
Cortázar: Assembly Instructions (I)
2020
2010s · 2 titles
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Amargo era el postre
2019
7.0An account of the childhood and youth of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, and how the hard experiences he lived during these formative years led him to write and publish his first major work when he was only 26 years old.
Mario y los perros
2019
Series credits
Behind the camera
9.7Cinema and painting establish a fluid dialogue and begins with introspection in the themes and forms of the plastic work of a woman tormented by the elongated specters, originating from her obsessions and nightmares.
Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell
1965
5.5Cherie, a Filipino maid, goes to a wealthy family's reception to do some extra work. But when she arrives, she discovers that her job is to look after the dogs. She then meets Milo, the family's young son.
Tinikling
2023
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La sombra del pasado
1947
6.0The Pursuer is a psychological thriller that tells the transformation suffered by a elderly rich couple when a mysterious man breaks into their house. Soon they will discover that the Pursuer not only puts their lives in danger, but He also threatens to reveal their most intimate secrets.
El perseguidor
2010
NRThe story of an aging woman and the unusual services she has to provide as a maid in a noble house. Based on a story by Julio Cortázar.
Good Services
1993
5.8Delia Mañara is notorious in her quarter of Buenos Aires for the mysterious deaths of two of her fiancés. She lives in a twilight world and gains most satisfaction through the exercise of power over others.
Circe
1964