Tú me abrasas is an adaptation of “Sea Foam”, a chapter from Cesare Pavese’s “Dialoghi con Leucò” published in 1947. The ancient Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomartis meet beside the sea and have a conversation about love and death. Sappho is said to have thrown herself into the ocean from lovesickness. Britomartis apparently tumbled off a cliff and into the water while fleeing from a man. Together, the two discuss the stories and images that have emerged around them to try and understand, at least for a moment, the bittersweet nature of desire. The film adapts not only the text but also footnotes and gaps in the story. For example, the fact that, in 1950, a desperate Pavese committed suicide in a hotel room with this book by his side. Or that Sappho’s poems have survived only in fragments. Or that sea foam is historically and scientifically associated with fertility and bacteria, that is, with life itself. “Everything dies in the sea and comes back to life,” says Britomartis. Tú me abrasas introduces new readings and translations that go beyond the myths by Pavese and Sappho.
阿娜伊丝?宁(Maria de Medeiros玛丽亚?德?梅黛洛 饰),银行家雨果(Richard E. Grant 饰)的妻子,一个外表雍容却沉迷于D. H. 劳伦斯文字的野性女子。在丈夫的介绍下,阿娜伊丝结识了外表颓废粗糙的小说家亨利?米勒(Fred Ward弗雷德?沃德 饰),她迷上了眼前这个睿智的男子,继而又为亨利的妻子琼(Uma Thurman 乌玛?瑟曼 饰)所吸引。
在琼的嘱托下,阿娜伊丝开始照料亨利的生活,为他的小说《北回归线》四处奔走,并由此衍生出一段段狂野激情的欢愉……
本片获1991年奥斯卡最佳剧本提名。