Homer: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man

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

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.

Director: Fabio Carpi

Casts

	Claude Rich as René Kermadec
	Valéria Cavalli as Sibilla
	Grégoire Colin as Manuel Fernandez
	Renée Faure as
	Jacques Dufilho as
	Natalia Bizzi as
	José Quaglio as
	Linda Koslovich as
	Giovanni Guidelli as
	Walter Vidarte as
	Roger Ibáñez as
	Antonio Pettinelli as
	Rafael Rodríguez as
	Franco Trevisi as
	Vani Tripathi as

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