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Shreds of his own writings, swings of conjectures that do not disdain his vital gestures as a correlate of his aesthetic project and vice versa, are articulated in a work that, with a good rhythm, "says" precisely about the impossibility of encompassing Macedonio Fernández. And it says, in fact, about a work that is always challenging, whose most exquisite legacy is perhaps, for this time of turn-of-the-century transition, the attitude of playful and derogatory suspicion towards everything that is proposed as certainty and dogma. (Andrea Guiú)

The filmmaker, who before this work filmed "Soriano", considers that "Fed up the Borges" perhaps "is a plural and reflective look at all possible Borges". With them he debated "as if they were ghosts in a moviola, which appeared and disappeared", while he advanced in the editing of his film. Of all of them, Montes-Bradley preferred to stay "with the most human", disdaining the one that so many and countless tributes "have attached to bronze, to a kind of fashion that trivializes it".

What differentiates this production from others recently released, which also focus on our famous writer?

"Tristán Bauer's documentary ("The books and the night") is the first to open and detonate this borgesmania that Argentine cinema is experiencing - Montes-Bradley responds -. There is no doubt that it is very well done, because Bauer is one one of the best documentary filmmakers in America. But the place he proposes is that of Borges in the cultural apparatus, perhaps closer to the official history. However, he is still a great contribution. Everything that is said with height and with the Bauer's way of approaching the subject is a great contribution. It's simply a Borges that doesn't interest me. And then there's Borges' sexual life, which isn't a point of interest to me. What do I care about his loves, his blindness, his cane? Stopping at that is like stopping at the white horse of Saint Martin, at the curved saber, at that place reserved for stupidity by banality and the media".

Apart from different tastes and perspectives, the director of "Fed up the Borges" considers that "there is still a lot left" to continue talking about the Argentine writer.

"This occurs because Borges is one of the intellectuals who should not be buried in what concerns the field of controversy and discussion -concludes Montes-Bradley-. I believe that we must continue looking for many more features, interpret it, that serve to think".

Source: "La Nación" newspaper, Argentina; September 14, 2000.

An excellent documentary that if at first it seems that it is going to be a testimony of their hardships, that is only the beginning; then it is also a critique of the two opposing governments, although not falling into populism. Actually the protagonists of the documentary are those citizens and the fight for their freedom (not only in prison), since the freedom to live where you want, in your city, in your country, etc. Also part of this is the journalist who makes the documentary, who empathizes more and more with the characters. What I liked the least is that despite the fact that many of them imply that they want reunification, it seems to me that there is still a political fanaticism (yes, fanaticism without violence) and ideological, which is much more noticeable in the end , when they arrive in North Korea. Pathetic performances by both South Korean (turning a deaf ear to everything), and North Korea (the video publicist of the children of the sun is shameful). Incredible how in a supposed "democratic" country, it has allowed political prisoners to have spent up to 40 years in jail. Great documentary.