Variety's review of "Borges and Me," directed by Marc Turteltaub, examines this loosely biographical film adapting American writer Jay Parini's 2020 memoir about a real-life encounter with Argentine literary giant Jorge Luis Borges. The film dramatises a 1970s road trip through the Scottish Highlands that a young Parini took while unexpectedly chaperoning the elderly, blind Borges, and the reviewer finds it an amiable but slight work that stretches a charming anecdote further than it comfortably sustains as a feature.

The story follows Parini (played by Fionn Whitehead), a doctoral student at St Andrew's, who is left in charge of Borges (Luis Gnecco) when his supervisor Alastair Reid (Alan Cumming) departs suddenly for London, forcing Parini to combine babysitting duties with a planned interview trip to meet poet George Mackay Brown (Peter Mullan). Shot with autumnal richness by cinematographer Christopher Norr, the film premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival and features an international cast including Freya Mavor as a love interest for Parini, with the review praising Gnecco's lively performance as Borges while noting the film is "more perky than poetic."