Homer: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
1997, Italian. Directed by Fabio Carpi.
Though he is near death, blind Rene, an elderly Italian-French intellectual, continues to make his annual conference abroad accompanied by his self-centered loyal, beautiful assistant Sibilla who may or may not be his lover. Rene's domineering mother strongly disapproves of Sibilla and his continual galavanting, but Rene disregards her and goes anyway. While in Spain, Sibilla falls for a handsome young toreador who also captures the interest of Rene, though it is hard to say whether his feelings for the bullfighter are fatherly or more romantic. It is also unclear as to whether Sibilla and the bullfighter are lovers either. Thus an enigmatic romantic triangle forms until Rene and Sibilla suddenly decide to wed. The character of Rene seems to be closely patterned after Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
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- 1h 42m
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- Italian
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- 26 May 1997
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Homer: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 26 May 1997. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Homer: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man (1997) was directed by Fabio Carpi and stars Claude Rich, Valéria Cavalli, Grégoire Colin.