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Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

2020 · Movie · 75 min · ★ 7.2

Documentary

“I’ve already lived my death, now all I have to do is make a movie about it,” said the filmmaker Hector Babenco to Bárbara Paz, realizing that he didn’t have much time left. She accepted the mission and fulfilled her partner’s last wish: to be the protagonist of his own death. In this loving immersion into the filmmaker’s life, he bares himself fully before the camera, revealing his fears, anxieties, memories, and reflections in a confrontation between the intellectual vigor and physical frailty that marked his life. From his first experience of cancer at age thirty-eight to his death at seventy, Babenco made movies the medicine that helped him continue living. TELL ME WHEN I DIE is Barbara Paz’s first film but also, in a way, Babenco’s last work—a film about filming, never to die.

Also known as Babenco - Someone Has to Listen to the Heart and Say: It Has Stopped

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Details
Original title
Babenco - Alguém Tem que Ouvir o Coração e Dizer: Parou
Years
2020
Release date
2020-11-26
Language
Portuguese
Runtime
75 min
TMDB rating
7.2/10 (17 votes)

Themes

  • husband wife relationship
  • cinema on cinema
  • terminal illness
  • terminal care
  • portrait of an artist
  • portrait of a filmmaker

Awards & recognition

  • International Submission to the Academy Awards · 2021 · nominated

Cast & crew

Directed by Bárbara Paz