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Life of Jorge Luis Borges

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A biography of Jorge Luis Borges working from an exhaustive review of the papers he left, the books he read, the places he went to. And with this, an attempt to decipher a very peculiar life: someone who lived like a hidden, underground warrior, whose cause was literature, literature conceived as a kingdom and as a landscape. If Cold War spies fought from their desks or from an uninhabited house to defend their half of the world, Borges strove from a library to elevate and broaden the territories of his own tribe: the people for whom the most important part of the universe is books, plots and words. This film is devoted to that secret pilgrim (to borrow from Le Carré, the king of all spies).

Critics Reviews

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Nick James Sight & Sound 6 days ago
... we are meant to have a constantly changing relationship to what we are watching as the film dances its playful milonga on the fine border between wry, fascinated engagement and fatigue. Go to Full Review William Repass Slant Magazine Sep 18, 2026
3.5/4
Like the celebrated fictions of its subject, Mariano Llinás’s Life of Jorge Luis Borges is a work of many dimensions. Go to Full Review Patrick Fey In Review Online Oct 3, 2026
Somewhere in between travelogue, reenactment, investigative journalism, and essay, between YouTube and Venice’s Sala Casinò... this "biography" remains to the end [thrillingly] unidentifiable. Go to Full Review David Katz The Film Stage Sep 14, 2026
Llinás has created one of the most convincing and most enjoyable literary films in recent memory. Go to Full Review Diego Batlle Otroscines.com Sep 10, 2026
4.5/5
...Life of Jorge Luis Borges is a very funny movie, an exercise in both literature and cinephilia that allows itself to jump from documentary to road movie, comedy, musical, and western. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Read all reviews

Cast & Crew

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Mariano Llinás

Director

Mariano Llinás

Screenwriter

Laura Citarella

Producer

Agustín Mendilaharzu

Cinematographer

Gabriel Chwojnik

Original Music

Movie Info

Synopsis A biography of Jorge Luis Borges working from an exhaustive review of the papers he left, the books he read, the places he went to. And with this, an attempt to decipher a very peculiar life: someone who lived like a hidden, underground warrior, whose cause was literature, literature conceived as a kingdom and as a landscape. If Cold War spies fought from their desks or from an uninhabited house to defend their half of the world, Borges strove from a library to elevate and broaden the territories of his own tribe: the people for whom the most important part of the universe is books, plots and words. This film is devoted to that secret pilgrim (to borrow from Le Carré, the king of all spies).
Director
Mariano Llinás
Producer
Laura Citarella
Screenwriter
Mariano Llinás
Production Co
El Pampero Cine
Genre
Biography, Documentary
Original Language
Spanish
Runtime
5h 23m
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