Cinema Guild has revealed the official trailer for You Burn Me (Tú me abrasas), the ‘reverie on love and mortality’ from Argentinian filmmaker Matías Piñeiro.

Continuing Piñeiro’s signature playful literary adaptations, this time, he turns to Cesare Pavese’s final work from 1947, adapting “Sea Foam,” a chapter from Dialoghi con Leucò, in which the Greek poet Sappho encounters the nymph Britomartis to discuss love, myth, and mortality.

You Burn Me world premiered at the Berlinale and made its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival, will open on Friday, March 7 at Anthology Film Archives in New York City, on Friday, March 14 at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles, and on Friday, March 21 at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, with additional cities to follow.

Set in present-day Turin and shot on 16mm, the film evokes a surreal detachment, as tourists fill the streets and characters use cell phones to translate ancient Greek texts. You Burn Me also reflects on Pavese’s own tragic life—an antifascist poet and novelist from Turin who died by suicide in the city’s Hotel Roma.

Piñeiro’s longtime collaborators Agustina Muñoz, María Villar, and Gabi Saidón, provide voiceover narration as the film blends close-up shots of annotated phrases, playful drawings, and quotidian abstractions of the sea.

The film’s North American theatrical release includes the brand-new, standalone six-minute short Preface for the Little Dialogue, featuring the director’s voiceover as an introduction to the feature.

In conjunction with the New York City run, Anthology Film Archives will present a guest-curated series by Piñeiro, showcasing films that influenced You Burn Me and engage with its themes and techniques, including works by Mariano Llinás, Michelangelo Antonioni, Danièle Huillet, and Jean-Marie Straub. Meanwhile, the American Cinematheque will host Piñeiro’s first complete retrospective in Los Angeles as part of the film’s local release.

Watch the official trailer for You Burn Me (Tú me abrasas)