You Burn Me (Matías Piñeiro, 2024)For Matías Piñeiro, the Argentine director best known for his cycle of six films inspired by Shakespeare’s comedies and centered on their female heroines, You Burn Me marks a singular departure. While recursions and variations are nothing new in Piñeiro’s cinema, You Burn Me deploys them to capture something about the act of reading itself. From Sappho’s fragmented poems to Pavese’s writings, You Burn Me is a film enamored of words and books. I wanted You Burn Me to be a little more conceptual than my previous works. That didn’t happen in my previous films, where I was more fixated on what the drama needed.