Man on Pink Corner (film)

Man on Pink Corner (Spanish: Hombre de la Esquina Rosada) is a 1962 Argentine film directed by René Múgica, based on the story by Jorge Luis Borges.[1] It was shown at the Cannes and San Sebastián film festivals.[1]

Borges viewed the film favourably, commenting "he did a good job with the possibilities provided by the plot".[2]

In a survey of the 100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 17th position.[3] In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 48th position.[4]

Cast

Plazaola, Luis Trelles (1989) South American Cinema, University of Puerto Rico Press, ISBN 978-0-8477-2011-8, p. 143
Burgin, Richard (1998) Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations, University Press of Mississippi, ISBN 978-1-57806-075-7, p. 64
"Las 100 mejores del periodo 1933-1999 del Cine Argentino". La mirada cautiva. Buenos Aires: Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken (3): 6–14. 2000. Archived from the original on 21 November 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2022 – via Encuesta de cine argentino 2022 on Google Drive.
"Top 100" (in Spanish). Encuesta de cine argentino 2022. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2022.

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