Burn!
From the meeting between Armando Bó and Isabel Sarli, and from the sperm dragged by the force of the water from the Iguazú falls, a girl emerges with no identity or memory who will have to face a nightmarish world with the only tool of a limitless desire that it will burn everything.
Summary
Burn! (2022) is a surreal, feverish fantasy rooted in the mythology of Argentine cinema. Inspired by the legendary meeting between filmmaker Armando Bó and actress Isabel Sarli, the film imagines an extraordinary birth: from the waters and sexual force surrounding Iguazú Falls, a young woman emerges without a name, a past, or any memory of who she is. Cast into an uncanny and nightmarish world, she must navigate unfamiliar people, threatening forces, and a reality that seems governed more by dream logic than by ordinary rules. With no identity to anchor her, the protagonist becomes both an outsider and a vessel for pure instinct. Her only apparent resource is an overwhelming, limitless desire—an energy that gives her power but also places her in conflict with the world around her. The figures connected to Bó and Sarli function as more than historical personalities, evoking the erotic, rebellious, and transgressive legacy of their films while linking the heroine’s journey to the fantasies and taboos of popular cinema. Rather than following a conventional narrative, Burn! unfolds as a hallucinatory fable about self-invention, sexuality, memory, and liberation. Its imagery turns the body and the landscape into sources of danger and possibility, while its atmosphere suggests a world shaped by repression, violence, and longing. The film’s central question is whether a person born without a history can create an identity through desire alone—and what happens when that desire refuses to be contained.
