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Tag Archives: Raoul Ruiz
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 AKA 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 »
The Lost Domain AKA 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 »
Savage Souls AKA 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 »
Dialogues of the Exiled AKA 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 »
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 »
Point de fuite / Vanishing Point (1984) Raoul Ruiz, Steve Baës, Rebecca Pauly, Paulo Branco, Drama
A character escapes from the police and after all the money played to draw covers crime novels.
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The Territory / O Território (1981) Raoul Ruiz, Geoffrey Carey, Paul Getty Jr., Jeffrey Kime, Drama, Horror
A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Read More »
Combat d’amour en songe / Love Torn in a Dream (2000) Raoul Ruiz, Melvil Poupaud, Elsa Zylberstein, Lambert Wilson, Drama, Fantasy
Nine strange stories merge to form a visual fantasy. Someone steals a work of art of painting, a mirror has the power to steal reflecting the future Read More »
Trois vies et une seule mort / Three Lives and Only One Death (1996) Raoul Ruiz, Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Galiena, Marisa Paredes, Comedy, Crime
Take a walk into the weird world of filmmaker Raul Ruiz as he takes us to Paris for a twisted ride. A man which shares four names and four personalities (which is the real one?) is the link between four different, yet similar, stories involving love, lust, crime, and time.
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Les trois couronnes du matelot / Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983) Raoul Ruiz, Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Nadège Clair, Drama, Fantasy
A drunken sailor recounts his life story to a murderous student.
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Ce jour-là / That Day (2003) Raoul Ruiz, Bernard Giraudeau, Elsa Zylberstein, Jean-Luc Bideau
A father (Michel Piccoli) is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage (Elsa Zylberstein) killed by allowing a murderous psychopath (Bernard Giraudeau) to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.
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