''Circe'' is a 1964 Argentine film directed by

Manuel Antín Manuel Antín (February 27, 1926 – September 5, 2024) was an Argentine film director and screenwriter. Life and career Manuel Antín was born in Las Palmas, Chaco Province, in 1926. He first wrote for Argentine television in 1956 and made ...

. It was entered into the

14th Berlin International Film Festival The 14th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 26 June to 7 July 1964. The Golden Bear was awarded to '' Dry Summer'' directed by Metin Erksan. The Swedish film ''491'' by Vilgot Sjöman was rejected by festival director Alf ...

. The film is based on a short story by

Julio Cortázar Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; ) was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenc ...

, published in 1951. Its main theme is about perverse sexual gratification in a repressed Catholic environment. Delia Mañara is notorious in her quarter of

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...

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. It emerges that she killed the two men by poisoning them with the sweets she makes; when this fails with her third fiancé, he is freed from her fatal attraction by the knowledge.The mythical correspondences are explored by Sophie Dufays in ''Circé de Cortázar : au carrefour du mythe et du fantastique'', Folia Electronica Classica, B Louvain-la-Neuve 2007
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* 1964 films 1960s Spanish-language films Argentine black-and-white films Films directed by Manuel Antín Films based on works by Julio Cortázar Films based on short fiction 1960s Argentine films {{1960s-Argentina-film-stub