Jorge Luis Borges: O Homem no Espelho

The Mirror Man is a wonderful documentary on Jorge Luis Borges, the great Argentine writer and poet. This wide-ranging biography, directed by Philippe Molins, boasts some superb archival video footage of 20th century Buenos Aires and interviews with Borges’s mother, his second wife and the writer himself, who died in 1986. It was written by Alberto Manguel, who believes that the central theme of Borges works was the “curious paradox of being human in a mysterious and incomprehensible world.