The Film to Come

The Film to Come

If any single piece can act as a key to Ruiz, it may be the 1997 short Le Film à Venir (The Film to Come). The titular film is a holy fragment of...

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Voyage of a Hand

Voyage of a Hand

In Voyage of a Hand, Ruiz constructs another of his concentric labyrinths that hits us right in the multifaceted center of our confusion. We might...

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Dark at Noon

Dark at Noon

In this mystical comedy, Felicien has traveled to Portugal from France soon after the end of the First World War. It seems that his recently...

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A Place Among the Living

A Place Among the Living

A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.

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The Divisions of Nature

The Divisions of Nature

Ruiz on the film: "Les Divisions is a documentary about the Château de Chambord and the title comes from the Divisione of Johannes Scotus (Erigena)...

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Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point

An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen.

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Little White Dove

Little White Dove

A young working class girl falls in love with an upper class boy who is part of the plot to assassinate General Schneider, head of the Chilean Army.

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Brise-glace

Brise-glace

Collaborative experimental project on which three director made different films about the Swedish icebreaker "Frej".

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The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror

The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror

A man whose wife has committed suicide, appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere, under the bed, under tables… After seeing the...

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Utopia: The Scattered Body and the World Upside Down

Utopia: The Scattered Body and the World Upside Down

Two salesmen in Honduras are looking everywhere for their lost pal.

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Derrière le Mur

Derrière le Mur

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

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The Blind Owl

The Blind Owl

H., 35, an Arabian immigrant, works as projectionist in an old cinema. One day, drawn by the music, he looks through the window of the booth and is...

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The Penal Colony

The Penal Colony

A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later...

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Notre mariage

Notre mariage

A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.

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Médée: Chronique d’une mise en scène

Médée: Chronique d’une mise en scène

A chronicle of Raúl Ruiz’s production of Michèle Reverdy’s opera “Médée”.

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Fado, Major and Minor

Fado, Major and Minor

Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and...

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Pages d'un catalogue

Pages d'un catalogue

Filmed during the exhibition of the painter Dali at Beaubourg.

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What Is to Be Done?

What Is to Be Done?

Mordant, self-aware, freighted with sensitivity toward Chile’s problem, wary of caricature, disposed toward consciousness of human fallibility, it...

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Life Is a Dream

Life Is a Dream

A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince learns...

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L'Inconnu de Strasbourg

L'Inconnu de Strasbourg

Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul...

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