A drunken sailor recounts the surrealistic odyssey of his life story to a murderous student. Read More »
Tag Archives: Raoul Ruiz
Dialogues of the Exiled / Diálogos de exiliados (1975) Raoul Ruiz, Daniel Gélin, Françoise Arnoul, Huguette Faget
Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them in the early years of the Pinochet regime. Read More »
The Lost Domain / Le domaine perdu (2005) Raoul Ruiz, François Cluzet, Grégoire Colin, Christian Colin
Set in 1973 during the coup d’etat in Chile, Max recalls his encounters in London Read More »
Utopia (1976) Raoul Ruiz, Eduardo Barr, Fosi Bendek, Germán Leitzelar
Two traveling salesmen are searching for the pieces of the body of a lost friend. Read More »
Bérénice (1983) Raoul Ruiz, Anne Alvaro, Jean-Bernard Guillard, Jean Badin
A lush, baroque adaptation of Jean Racine’s 1670 tragedy about a Roman emperor Read More »
Marcel Proust’s Time Regained / Le temps retrouvé d’après l’oeuvre de Marcel Proust (1999) Raoul Ruiz, Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood Read More »
Savage Souls / Les âmes fortes (2001) Raoul Ruiz, Laetitia Casta, Frédéric Diefenthal, Arielle Dombasle
At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Read More »
A Place Among the Living AKA Une place parmi les vivants (2003) Raoul Ruiz, Christian Vadim, Thierry Gibault, Valérie Kaprisky
Paris 1958. “Existentialist” crimes are being committed in the eighteenth arrondissement of Paris. Read More »
Het dak van de Walvis / On Top of the Whale (1982) Raoul Ruiz, Jean Badin, Fernando Bordeu, Herbert Curiel, Fantasy
A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia Read More »
Shattered Image (1998) Raoul Ruiz, Anne Parillaud, William Baldwin, Lisanne Falk, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Confusing realities surface in this paranoid film dealing with the fragile nature of a young woman (Anne Parillaud) Read More »