LA RENCONTRE
Learning of her father’s suicide, Emma Zunz embarks on a relentless crusade to exact revenge from Aaron Loewenthal, the man responsible for his ruin and death. Set within the coastal town of Biarritz, this adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges’ short story traces the transformation of a quiet, introverted young woman into a calculating executor of justice.
Awoken from a muted existence, Emma must remake her entire identity to carry out a horrific imperative. Suspended between reality and fiction, she meticulously orchestrates a web of deceit, executing a precise series of actions designed to make her inevitable act of violence look like self-defense—proving that truth is not what occurred, but what one forces the world to believe.
Shot in Biarritz, France over 36 hours.
28 min (2002)