In 1995, Raúl Ruiz went to Taiwan, where he shot La comédie des ombres at Jīnbao Shān cemetery; he never got around to editing the material. George Clark wonders what this work, rooted in Luigi Pirandello’s Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore and fables by Zhuāng Zhōu, could have been like.
Screens before Pierre Schoendoerffer, la peine des hommes.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Chile, Taiwan, UK
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 31"
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
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