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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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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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 mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.
See moreThe 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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An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen.
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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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Collaborative experimental project on which three director made different films about the Swedish icebreaker "Frej".
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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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Two salesmen in Honduras are looking everywhere for their lost pal.
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Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia
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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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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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A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.
See moreMédée: Chronique d’une mise en scène
A chronicle of Raúl Ruiz’s production of Michèle Reverdy’s opera “Médée”.
See moreFado, 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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Filmed during the exhibition of the painter Dali at Beaubourg.
See moreWhat 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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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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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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