MANUEL PUIG IN DEPTH - COMPLETE AND RESTORED EDITION

MANUEL PUIG IN DEPTH - October 30, 1977 - B/W - 41 minutes
Manuel Puig (1932-1990). "The Kiss of the Spider Woman" (1976) is the fourth and last novel published when this program was made, and the one that later gave it international fame when it was adapted as a feature film, in one last paradox of its rocking career, between literature and the cinema.
It was born "in the dry Pampa:" The town was a western that I had entered by mistake. Starting from this origin, Puig makes an anthological account of his neurotic cinematographic career, from his studies in Rome, going through the years as an assistant director and screenwriter "what gave me pleasure when writing for cinema was copying and not creating", until the memory of the voice of an aunt of his decides to "register that voice. What I wanted was to tell me about those years of my childhood.
He settles in New York and manages to finish "The Betrayal of Rita Hayworth" (1968): "I have a great problem expressing myself, and I think that has something to do with the fact that I write."