THE SPIDER'S STRATAGEM (1970)
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI
Plot
One of Bertolucci's finest films, an adaptation of a Borges short story transposed to the Po valley. Athos returns to his home town to find the monument to his father, a war hero, defaced. He sets out on a trail of discovery about his father, and finds omens, mysteries, enigmas and riddles. Brilliantly conceived and directed drama, and cinema's richest homage to all Borges..