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Artists of all stripes have openly grappled with the spectres of their own mortality, but few film directors have confronted their own looming deaths as bluntly, or with as much vitality, as did Hector Babenco by participating in this climactic work, the part-sober documentary/part-boisterous extravaganza Babenco: Tell…

“I didn’t want the film to be a filmography,” says Bárbara Paz, the director and wife of late award-winning Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Hector Babenco in her love letter documentary Babenco: Tell Me When I Die, “I wanted to make a film about cinema, wanted to make cinema for him, not only about him.” The doc, which…